Arafura Sea

Police Inspector Ian Houghton said authorities were keeping a eye on a tropical low in the Arafura Sea, which the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) had predicted could reach category 3 cyclone strength in the Gulf of Carpentaria in coming days. Inspector Houghton said the system could bring bad weather to ...

Police Inspector Ian Haughton said authorities were keeping a eye on Cyclone Nora in the Arafura Sea, which the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has predicted could reach category three cyclone strength in the Gulf of Carpentaria in coming days. Inspector Haughton said the system could bring bad weather ...

The low north of Nhulunbuy, in the Arafura Sea, formed as Tropical Cyclone Nora by 5am and was category two by 10am. It is expected to become a category three system by 1am on Saturday, before reaching category four strength 24 hours later. The Bureau of Meteorology said the slow-moving system ...

TOWNS on Cape York's west coast are putting cyclone preparations in place, with a tropical low in the Arafura Sea forecast to reach cyclone strength in the Gulf of Carpentaria tomorrow afternoon. The 5pm advice from the Bureau of Meteorology had the cyclone watch zone for Queensland extending ...

A severe category three tropical cyclone could develop off the Queensland coast on Saturday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has warned. Tropical Cyclone Nora formed early this morning in the Arafura Sea and intensified to a category 2 system shortly before 11:00 am. It is expected to further intensify ...

A tropical low currently in the Arafura Sea is forecast to reach cyclone strength in the Gulf late on Friday, and further intensify to severe Category 3 strength during the weekend. Cyclone Watches are in place for both the Northern Territory's northeast and Queensland's Cape York Peninsula coasts.

TWO potential cyclones are now on the Bureau of Meteorology radar with one, a low pressure system, expected to deepen over the Arafura Sea with the chance of a cyclone developing tomorrow. The BOM was also watching a tropical low which it said may develop in, or east of, the Solomon Sea today.

The system is currently tracking south west from the Arafura Sea into the Gulf of Carpentaria. An independent weather forecaster and Higgins Storm Chasing are both saying a weather system in the Gulf of Carpentaria will develop into a cyclone by the end of this week, bring more much needed rain to the ...

Darwin is unlikely to be hit but East Arnhem Land could be in for a wet and wild weekend. A tropical low located 500km north of Nhulunbuy is travelling west into the Arafura Sea, and has the potential to develop into a tropical cyclone before the weekend. Bureau of Meteorology Forecaster Peter Markworth ...

The BOM said a weak tropical low in the northeastern Arafura Sea about 500km north of Nhulunbuy was expected to move west before changing direction and begin shifting towards the southeast during Thursday. There was now a greater than 50 per cent chance the tropical low may develop into a tropical ...

The recent surge in tropical activity around Australia is showing no signs of ending as yet another cyclone is expected to develop this week. Once again, the Top End will be in path of a tropical cyclone as development is likely in the Arafura Sea by Thursday. As the cyclone becomes better organized, rain ...

Bureau of Meteorology forecast mapping shows a series of low pressure systems developing by Monday afternoon in the lead up to Easter. “There's a small chance we could see some development in the Gulf and the Arafura Sea,” he said. Chances for development of the low into a cyclone are very low for ...

“What we know so far is that a tropical low will drift into the Arafura Sea and that computer models have trended east towards a potential North or Eastern Top End/Gulf of Carpentaria TC scenario. “While we still have no indication of exact tracks or intensity, the only thing we (or the Bureau for that matter) ...

A tropical low north of Thursday Island is expected to intensify while pushing west across the northern Gulf of Carpentaria and into the Arafura Sea over the next few days. Another tropical low over the Solomon Sea is forecast to shift southeast into the northeastern Coral Sea during Wednesday and ...

The Northern Territory Parliament, overlooking the Arafura Sea in Darwin, might be a long way from the Red Centre, but a change in law has given give this married bush couple more choice. Last week both sides of Parliament agreed to axe an old adoption law that only allowed married heterosexual ...

The firm harvests a range of fish species, such as ribbon fish, Indian white shrimp, croaker fish, pomfret, Spanish mackerel, conger eel, squid, and red snapper with its owned and licensed vessels operating within the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, Indo-Pacific waters, the Arafura Sea of Indonesia, and ...

Indonesia is an archipelago with more than 6,000 inhabited islands containing a population of 258 million people, stretching from the eastern Indian Ocean to Papua New Guinea from east to west, and from Borneo south of the Philippines to the Timor and Arafura Sea north to south. If the deal is concluded, ...

It will cross the Caribbean Sea, the South Pacific Ocean, the Coral Sea, the Arafura Sea, the Timor Sea, the Southern Indian Ocean, round the Cape of Good Hope, cross over the South Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and make a north bound passage the length of the North Atlantic Ocean. Moreland ...

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Analysis of migratory routes suggests that the P. vivax lineage currently circulating in America ha originated from Africa, Asia and Melanesia, a sub region of Oceania extending from the island of New Guinea in the South-western Pacific Ocean to the Arafura sea. “We believe that descendants of the native ...

In the days leading up to the surge, several newspapers reported the “most violent earthquake ever recorded on the seismograph in Australia” struck north west of Darwin in the Arafura Sea. The quake on February 3, 1938, was felt as far as Perth and South Australia with scientists at the time believing it to ...

HURRICANES, typhoons and our resident tropical cyclones left trails of destruction in communities around the world in 2017. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (or EUMETSAT) has just published its annual Year of Weather animation, showing where 2017's major ...

It would boost the national morale if we did set him adrift, in a boat, no provisions except water, no sunscreen, middle of the Arafura Sea would do nicely. Edit: Put Barnaby in the boat with him….imagine the beetroot after a week on the open sea with no sunscreen. Log in to Reply. St Jacques MEMBER ...

A tropical low has already formed in the Arafura Sea, is currently estimated to be 195 kilometres north of Kununurra and forecasters say it is set to pick up steam as it moves west. "The system is likely to strengthen as it moves west southwest across the northwest Kimberley," a Bureau spokesperson said.

By Daniel Fitzgerald. Updated 1 minute ago. First posted 8 February 2018 at 4:54 pm. a man holding a net on a beach with clouds behind. Don Wilton drags a net out into the Arafura Sea as the tide moves in. (ABC Rural: Daniel Fitzgerald). Share. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on WhatsApp; Print; Mail ...

CSIRO scientists have solved a 74-year-old maritime mystery with the discovery of the wreck of the SS Macumba off the Northern Territory coast. Early on Wednesday morning, researchers aboard the CSIRO's research vessel RV Investigator found the merchant ship resting on the floor of the Arafura Sea off ...

The intensifying tropical low north of the Tiwi Islands is moving southeast across the Arafura Sea and is expected to move towards the Top End and reach tropical cyclone intensity during today. The system will turn towards the southwest during Saturday and move into the Timor Sea late on Saturday or ...

The government is trying to expedite the completion of the master plan for the development of the Masela block in Arafura Sea as it prioritizes efforts to find prospective off-takers responsible for gas production in the block. Global oil and gas giants Inpex and Royal Dutch Shell, as the owners of Masela's ...

The firm harvests a range of fish species, such as ribbon fish, Indian white shrimp, croaker fish, pomfret, Spanish mackerel, conger eel, squid, and red snapper with its owned and licensed vessels operating within the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, Indo-Pacific waters, the Arafura Sea of Indonesia, and ...