Ex-tropical cyclone Lincoln reforming off Western Australian coast

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Preparations are underway in northern Western Australia as ex-tropical cyclone Lincoln reforms off the Pilbara coast. Authorities have deployed extra resources to the state's northwest, including personnel and satellite communications.

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00:00 Here in Exmouth there are signs that the storm system from ex-tropical cyclone Lincoln is

00:07 now starting to arrive in town.

00:09 It's been very hot for the last few days and very calm as well, but it is now a lot more

00:14 muggy since this morning.

00:16 The clouds have come over and there's been the first few drops of rain.

00:20 That's expected to only intensify as we go further into Friday and into Saturday, which

00:25 is when the cyclone is expected to make landfall.

00:29 Current projections were expecting that to be somewhere between Coral Bay and Carnarvon,

00:34 which is about an hour and 40 minutes from where I'm standing now.

00:40 Locals here are doing everything that they can to prepare.

00:43 This is an area that is used to cyclones.

00:45 They know how to prepare.

00:47 Sandbags have been put around important buildings around town and people's homes.

00:52 People with caravans and boats have stored those away in safe storage containers.

00:57 And there's also a few shops in town that have closed off for today and will continue

01:01 to be closed for the weekend.

01:05 Of course a lot of people are actually looking forward to heavy rains that we're expecting

01:09 to get.

01:10 They're expecting more than 100 mils of rain to hit this area over the next few days is

01:15 what the Exmouth Shire President had to say about that.

01:19 Very exciting.

01:20 We haven't had rain for ages.

01:21 I didn't know what it was on my windscreen for a while there.

01:25 I had to clean it off.

01:26 But we're anticipating to get a fair bit of rain out of this system.

01:30 At the last update it was quite a compact system, so depending on how close the track

01:35 comes to the coast is how much rain we'll get.

01:38 But they're anticipating 50, 3 to 150 mil of rain.

01:41 Now it's fair to say that locals aren't particularly worried about this cyclone system in terms

01:47 of any serious loss to damage to property or risk to life.

01:52 They've seen many bigger cyclones come here before in the past, but nonetheless they're

01:58 going to be on high alert for the rest of Friday and indeed until tomorrow.

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