Latest map has it closer to the coast as most above suggested. Still Cat 3 but have to be low end if it is, surely it'll be influenced by staying so close to land.

Because 96s is the Invest number (Invests are numbered from 90 to 99) and the S stands for South-East Indian Ocean (Region VII - Perth forecast centre).
An invest in meteorology (short for investigative area, alternatively written INVEST) is a designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for tropical cyclone development. Invests are designated by three separate forecast centers: the National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

05s is the storm number and is given when the system reaches tropical storm strength or stronger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invest_(meteorology)

Nice rain and gentle breeze here in Broome. And thats about it I think.

Hahaha we had a bunch of wooden high table blow over in Wickham! Those outer bands but 😂😂

Well there you go. Over land and won't go any higher than a cat 1. Looks like a QLD system to me

What a difference a day makes....

Never really fired up as lots of models predicted.

Can she resurface or is the show nearly over ...for us anyway.

5.51 am WST Track Map

Cards are being thrown on the table with this one.

TROPICAL CYCLONE TECHNICAL BULLETIN: AUSTRALIA - WESTERN REGION
Issued by PERTH TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING CENTRE
at: 1915 UTC 11/01/2018
Name: Tropical Cyclone Joyce


REMARKS:
Tropical Cyclone Joyce [09U] formed Thursday morning off the west Kimberley
coast. It has been located using Broome radar. Recent movement has seen the
system accelerate towards the southeast moving the cyclone closer to the west
Kimberley coast.

Dvorak analysis remains difficult due to the small size of the central
circulation. Convection continues to blow up near the centre but no large scale,
long lived curved banding has been evident which makes applying a Dvorak pattern
difficult. The convection that persists over the centre coincides with the tight
curvature around the centre location on the Broome radar. FT and CI are based on
some DTs of 3.0 with weighting given to a MET/PAT of 3.0. ADT has increased
during the evening, climbing to 3.9, as has SATCON intensity at 56 knots
[1-minute mean]. which is higher with the official intensity of 45 knots.

The centre has become scrappy on radar and the close proximity of land may be
inhibiting further development. The system is expected to remain near the coast
without any further development before moving inland and weakening. Ocean heat
content is high and wind shear is low, so conditions remain favourable for Joyce
to intensify further if it were to move offshore, however this now seems
unlikely.

Significant rainfall is likely across WA as the system tracks across the
Pilbara, Gascoyne and towards the southwest of the state.

Gee glad I didn't waste my time chasing that one. What a let down. Was pretty quiet around town not all that much wind, nice amount of rain for Broome so far with 109mm for the event with hopefully more to come today. Lots more fingers crossed.

Hopefully that west kick she's taken back off the coast will give us a little bit of excitement down here in Hedland. Wind is starting to pick up finally and looks like a heap of rain on the way

She is hop, skipping and jumping all over the coast