User:ChocolateTrain/Cyclone Blake

Tropical Cyclone Blake

Tropical low (Aus scale)
tropical low (SSHWS)
Formed	4 January 2020
Winds	10-minute sustained: 55 km/h (35 mph) 1-minute sustained: 65 km/h (40 mph) Gusts: 95 km/h (60 mph)
Pressure	993 hPa (mbar); 29.32 inHg
Areas affected	Western Australia
Part of the 2019–20 Australian region cyclone season

Severe Tropical Cyclone Blake was a powerful tropical cyclone that brought significant impacts to Western Australia during January 2020. It was the second tropical low and first tropical cyclone of the 2019–20 Australian region cyclone season. Blake developed from a tropical low which formed in a monsoon trough south of Java on 4 January.

Reaching tropical cyclone intensity only on ___ January, Blake was the latest-forming first tropical cyclone in a season since Stan in the 2015–16 season.

Meteorological history

Map plotting the storm's track and intensity, according to the Saffir–Simpson scale

Map key

Saffir–Simpson scale

  Tropical depression (≤38 mph, ≤62 km/h)
  Tropical storm (39–73 mph, 63–118 km/h)
  Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h)
  Category 2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h)
  Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h)
  Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h)
  Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h)
  Unknown

Storm type

Tropical cyclone

Subtropical cyclone

Extratropical cyclone, remnant low, tropical disturbance, or monsoon depression

First mention of designation (02U):

989 hPa:

See also

• Severe Tropical Cyclone Veronica (2019)—an intense and damaging tropical cyclone that impacted the same region of Western Australia in March 2019

External links

• Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• Joint Typhoon Warning Center