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“Newman is going to be rainy for a couple of days. The storm from Port Hedland is coming to Newman.”

– Akeelah Ashwin

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa , the first in the Western Region for the 1999-2000 season, formed to the northeast of Cocos Islands on 11 December 1999. It was tracked for a period of almost nine days and its development was impeded by vertical windshear for a large part of its lifetime. After a long track eastwards across the Indian Ocean it eventually crossed the WA coastline along the Eighty Mile Beach during the early afternoon of 17 December. During the lifetime of Ilsa , Tropical Cyclone John formed in the Timor Sea and crossed the Pilbara coast on the morning of 15 December.