00:01With it being a Category 4 or possibly a Category 5 when it makes landfall, you're looking at
00:06peak gusts near the eye, perhaps around 250km per hour, so that's very destructive winds.
00:12Destructive winds will extend down to Cooktown and damaging wind gusts all the way down to
00:16about Port Douglas, so that's why you have a cyclone watch that far south.
00:20Now, even though Norell will weaken over Cape York Peninsula, it should still bring gusts
00:24to about 120km per hour to the west coast of Cape York Peninsula.
00:30Now, also, as the system hits, there'll be some heavy rainfall, there's a risk of flash
00:34flooding directly under the path, but also a secondary area of heavy rain will extend down
00:39the north tropical coast, and that's why the flood watch does extend across Cape York all
00:44the way down to about Ingham, although, again, because of that fast-forward speed, it's very
00:49unlikely we'll have widespread major flooding.
00:51Minor to moderate flooding should eventuate across most catchments, so under the path,
00:56yeah, you're probably looking at about 12 to 24 hours of torrential rainfall, as opposed
01:01to the days of heavy rain that you can see when you have a slower system.
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