A cyclone warning has been issued in northern Australia for coastal communities from the island of Groote Eylandt to the Northern Territory/Queensland border. Tropical Cyclone Megan, which developed within the Gulf of Carpentaria on Saturday, has been declared a class 3 cyclone by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Megan is forecast to make landfall on Monday, however has already introduced gale-force winds and heavy rainfall to some areas over the weekend. Groote Eylandt was reduce off after greater than 400mm of rain in simply 24 hours on Sunday.
There’s a likelihood that Megan may strengthen additional right into a class 4 storm earlier than making landfall, with the potential for damaging wind gusts of as much as 125km/h. Megan is the fifth named cyclone in Australian waters up to now this season, which is beneath the common of about 10 by this stage of the 12 months.
Finland has had a comparatively delicate begin to March, but it surely turned colder over the weekend, with a snowstorm bringing as much as 10-15cm of snow and freezing temperatures to elements of the nation on Sunday. The low temperatures look set to proceed over the following few days, with minimal temperatures as little as -16C anticipated in Tampere, round 10C beneath the seasonal common for this time of 12 months. Temperatures are anticipated to return to round or simply above common once more by the top of the week.
In the meantime South Sudan is closing all colleges indefinitely from Monday in response to an excessive heatwave, which is prone to persist for a minimum of the following two weeks, with temperatures anticipated to extensively attain 41-45C, with highs nearer to 50C within the hottest spots. In a single day temperatures will even stay stubbornly excessive, not falling a lot beneath 27-28C. Temperatures within the capital, Juba, are prone to hit 40-42C day-after-day this week.