"The heaviest rainfall is being felt along cattle stations to the east of the system, with 580mm falling at De Grey and 320mm at Pardoo in recent days."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-14/tropical-cyclone-zelia-makes-landfall-port-hedland/104937612
#Zelia
"Severe Tropical Cyclone #Zelia hit #Australia's west coast on Friday and brought "very destructive" winds of up to 180 mph (290 kph) and heavy rains sparking concerns of flash floods."
https://www.dw.com/en/cyclone-zelia-makes-landfall-in-western-australia/a-71604264
Tropical Cyclone #Zelia over the last 2 and a half days with its rapid intensification, long stall and eyewall replacement cycles before final landfall near the De Grey River mouth, Western Australia today #CycloneZelia
Category 4 Severe Tropical Cyclone #Zelia makes landfall east of Port Hedland, Western Australia near De Grey River mouth.
Megazyklon Zelia in Australien auf Land getroffen
Ein heftiger #Zyklon ist an der australischen Westküste früher als erwartet auf Land getroffen: #Zelia wütete seit Mittag (Ortszeit) mit Windgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 195 und Böen von rund 290 km/h in der Region #Pilbara und speziell um die Städte PortHedland und #Karratha. Zudem warnten die Behörden wegen #Starkregen's im Zuge des Tropensturms vor #Sturzfluten und #Überschwemmungen. Port Hedland blieb zunächst – anders als erwartet – vom Zentrum des Zyklons verschont.
#himawari9 Channel 13, showing brightness temperature of #cyclone #Zelia at landfall. This is a wild system. It's a category 5 cyclone showing a ton of rotation and insanely high cloud tops around the eye, but the eye didn't clear out. More explanation in the alt text.
#weather #extremeweather #hurricane #satellite
source: Tropicaltidbits.com
Severe Tropical Cyclone #Zelia 
has made landfall on Ripon Island, Western Australia only about 50 km from Port Headland. Seen by #himawari9 
#CycloneZelia
#Australien #Australia #Storm #Zelia #Weather
Meine geliebte Westküste erwischt es wohl extrem 
Category 5 Severe Cyclone #Zelia spins furiously near the Pilbara coast of Western Australia.
The cyclone is expected to slowly track toward the coastline and make landfall west of Port Hedland late Saturday / early Sunday.
Dawn on wobbling slow moving and rapidly intensified Tropical Cyclone #Zelia eye just ~130 km NNW of Port Hedland, Western Australia. Intensity looks like category 3 or 4 hurricane equivalent, 4 on the Australian scale say BOM. #CycloneZelia
Cyclone Zeila
#Zelia is located 126 km north-northwest of #PortHedland, #Australia, and has tracked west-southwestward at 4 km/h (2 knots) over the past 6 hours. Maximum significant wave height is 7.9 meters (26 feet).
Zelia is forecast to continue slowly tracking west-southwestward over the next 24 hours, steered by competing, yet weak influences of two subtropical ridges to its west and east-southeast.
Current intensity maximum is forecast to be 230 km/h (125 knots), the system may reach slightly higher maximum wind speeds, if it slows down even more and spends more time within the highly favorable environment.
After 36 hours, Zelia will make landfall and begin to steadily weaken as its wind field interacts with the terrain and the core is cut off the favorable ocean environment.
Tropical Cyclone #Zelia has rapidly intensified overnight off Western Australia. It is now a major hurricane strength (category to be determined) extremely dangerous system. The eye is only 130 km NNW of Port Hedland #CycloneZelia
Friday Flyday! This Zelia vertebrata bristle fly has all the legs you need. Photo from Tennessee.
