) she was expected to track along the NW coast before recurving round and travelling towards the southern West coast of WA, most likely as an ex-TC by that stage.I initially thought the chances of any significant effect of a west coast cross were rather slim due to the extremely wide track she is taken off the coast but the Bureau of Meteorology have her coming close to the SW capes of WA as a Cat 1 system. This is something that hasn't happened since the remnants of TC Ned followed a similar track in March 1989 and before that was infamous TC Alby in April 1978. Although this system isn't expected to be anywhere near as bad as Alby (Alby bought widespread strong wind gusts to 150km/hr to an area SW of a line Jurien Bay to Albany and consequently some extremely bad bushfires, beach erosion and damage) She still has the potential to deliver wind gusts of around 120km/hr.
You can follow the talk on the WA weathergroup: http://waweathergroup.com/forum/viewtop ... f=2&t=1214 as you'd imagine they are getting a little excited about it!
I don't blame as if I was still over there I know I would be! 
Forecast Track Map (from here: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60281.shtml):
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