Strong Tropical Cyclone Chapala moved steadily westward on Saturday and it remains on track for a landfall in Yemen.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Chapala was located at latitude 13.6\u00b0N and longitude 56.0\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (425 km) south-southeast of Salalah, Oman and about 465 miles (765 km) east of Al Mukalla, Yemen.\u00a0 Chapala was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 135 m.p.h. (215 km) and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 952 mb.<\/p>\n
Chapala continues to be a strong well organized tropical cyclone and it is the equivalent of a major hurricane.\u00a0 It has a symmetrical circulation with a well formed eye inside a core of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Multiple rainbands are rotation around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Upper level divergence is pumping out mass in all directions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Chapala remains in a favorable environment.\u00a0 It is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are light.\u00a0 There is not much vertical wind shear and Chapala could maintain its intensity until it approaches the coast of Yemen.\u00a0 When Chapala gets nearer the coast, it will start to pull in drier air from the Arabian peninsula.\u00a0 As Chapala ingests the drier air, it will start to weaken.<\/p>\n
A ridge north of Chapala is steering the tropical cyclone westward.\u00a0 As Chapala nears the western end of the ridge, it will start to turn more toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Chapala will approach the central coast of Yemen in 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 The core of Chapala will pass north of the island of Socotra on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strong Tropical Cyclone Chapala moved steadily westward on Saturday and it remains on track for a landfall in Yemen.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Chapala was located at latitude 13.6\u00b0N and longitude 56.0\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (425 km) south-southeast of Salalah, Oman and about 465 miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2],"tags":[258,259,54,260,256,257,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}