Tropical Zone Gardening: Things hotting up ...... cooling down?, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
I spoke too soon on Olga. She's swallowed up Neville, not even spat the bones out. She'll shortly be crossing the coast but near or right over Cooktown, further north than earlier anticipated.

This shift northwards now allows Olga to cross Cape York Peninsula and move into the Gulf of Carpentaria by Monday/Tuesday. The waters there are very warm and Olga will re-intensify. If she keeps tracking northwards then she'll end up in our backyard.

I can't imagine her tracking far enough northwards to actually hit us, but then again, previously I said Neville (now munched up by Olga) was too far south to come anywhere near here. Still, it's too much of an outside chance. And we have reasonable vertical wind shear in this area at the moment. Unless that changes she won't get through. More likely, she might hit Borroloola and we could end up with flooding. (So what's new? We've been under flood warnings since December.)