Cyclone Mick’s Center Exposed, Storm Dissipating
Cyclone Mick’s center of circulation is exposed today, December 15. That’s bad news for any cyclone as wind shear and dry air can work their way into the center of a storm and basically destroy it from the inside-out. At 10 a.m. ET on December 15, Mick’s sustained winds were around tropical depression force, 35 mph. It was located about 185 nautical miles east-southeast of Suva, Fiji, near 20.2 South and 177.4 West. Mick was moving east-southeast near 9 mph. |
Cyclone Laurence on Dec. 15 at 12:03 a.m. ET as its eye was about to make landfall. Tropical Cyclone Laurence made landfall in Northwestern Australia this morning (Eastern Time) December 15, 2009. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Laurence just before the center of the storm made landfall at 0503 UTC (12:03 a.m. ET). The Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer instrument on Aqua captured the image. |
