A flood watch has been called for the Western Australian and Northern Territory border through to Broome.
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00:00 Hello from the Bureau of Meteorology.
00:02 Ex-tropical cyclone Lincoln is currently over northern Western Australia, about to move
00:07 over the ocean and we anticipate a high chance of this system restrengthening back into a
00:12 tropical cyclone in the next couple of days.
00:14 This severe weather video will be focused on north-western Australia.
00:17 It's up around the Kimberley region of WA.
00:20 This 'L' showing us where the ex-tropical cyclone is currently located and it's moving
00:25 this way, which means through the remainder of the day on Wednesday it will cross the
00:29 coastline and move back out over the Indian Ocean.
00:32 The rain which has been falling steadily, and in some places quite heavily for the past
00:35 couple of days across that Kimberley area, is going to ease back through Wednesday afternoon
00:40 and evening, but there's still a chance we could see some river level rises based on
00:44 the last couple of days of rainfall.
00:46 So this flood watch remains in place from the NTWA border out towards Broome.
00:52 Now let's see the possible movements of where this ex-tropical cyclone is likely to head.
00:56 On Thursday it starts to tilt and move in a south-westward trajectory out over the ocean
01:01 without having a major impact on mainland Australia.
01:04 There will be a few showers and possible storms likely for some of these coastal regions in
01:09 northern WA.
01:10 When we reach Thursday night or Friday morning, I'm actually going to jump into the track
01:14 map because we anticipate a high chance of tropical cyclone redevelopment back into a
01:18 Category 1 tropical cyclone to occur through the middle of the day on Friday, still out
01:23 over the water.
01:24 We could see further intensification to a Category 2 tropical cyclone by Friday evening,
01:29 but as we approach the start of the weekend, this system is still offshore there out over
01:34 those waters to the north.
01:35 However, through the day on Saturday we could well see another coastal crossing as this
01:40 tropical cyclone.
01:41 It will be Tropical Cyclone Lincoln, once again, crosses back onto northern parts of
01:46 WA as a Category 1 or possibly a Category 2 tropical cyclone, after which, when it goes
01:52 back over landfall, it will weaken away once again and start to move in a south-eastwards
01:56 pattern.
01:57 You can see this yellow area here for some parts of the northern WA coast.
02:01 That is a tropical cyclone watch which has just been issued in the last hour or so, showing
02:05 which areas are likely to see the strongest winds with this next coastal crossing of the
02:10 tropical cyclone.
02:11 So we have the watch in place from Roeburn down to Ningaloo, including Exmouth, Onslow
02:16 and Karratha, where gale force winds are expected within the next 48 hours as this renewed tropical
02:22 cyclone approaches.
02:24 So if you are in northern parts of WA, do stay up to date with the weather and the warnings
02:28 associated with this ex or current tropical cyclone, and that can be found at the Bureau
02:32 website and on the Bureau app.
02:34 We'll be giving you track updates on social media as well.
02:36 Thanks very much for watching.
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