After a week of cruising around the Coral Sea, Nathan made landfall Friday morning as a Category 4 Cyclone. Severe Tropical Cyclone Nathan crossed the coast just north of Cape Flattery around 4am EST this morning. Cape Flattery received the highest recorded gust at 2:30am clocking in at 161 km/h. Close to the core of the cyclone, just outside from the characteristically calm 'eye', wind gusts were estimated to be reaching 230 km/h. Cooktown Airport also recorded gusts to 85 km/h at 3:30am. Nathan has also brought heavy rain with 108mm in the gauge to 7am at Cape Flattery and Cooktown has collected just shy of 70mm. The very strong winds, brought rough seas with a wave buoy north of Cairns reporting close to 3 metre wave heights. The combination of rough seas, high tides and strong easterly winds are expected to cause some coastal inundation and flooding separate to heavy rain. As the cyclone passed over land, it quickly weakened to a Category 3. Over the course of today it is expected to decay below cyclone intensity, losing the warm waters that fuel it. From Saturday Nathan is expected to get a boost of life from the 30 degree waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Further ahead the track is more uncertain but there is good agreement that Nathan will track towards and across the northeastern corner of the Top End of the NT as a category 1 or 2 cyclone on Sunday. For all the latest warnings and track maps visit www.weatherzone.com.au/charts/tropicalcyclone.jsp