Tropical Cyclone Megh moved slowly westward over the Arabian Sea on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Megh was located at latitude 12.9\u00b0N and longitude 60.4\u00b0E which put it about 420 miles (680 km) east of Socotra Island, Yemen.\u00a0 Megh was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
The convection around Tropical Cyclone Megh diminished earlier today, but more thunderstorms have formed near the center of circulation during the past few hours.\u00a0 Megh has a well formed, symmetrical circulation with an eyelike feature at the center.\u00a0 It is a small cyclone and tropical storm force winds only extend out about 50 miles (80 km) from the center.\u00a0 The new thunderstorms near the center of circulation are starting to generate upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Aside from the possible drier air, the environment surrounding Tropical Cyclone Megh is favorable for intensification,\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The winds in the upper levels are light and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Now that thunderstorms are redeveloping near the core of the circulation, Tropical\u00a0 Cyclone Megh should begin to intensify and it is still likely to reach hurricane intensity in a day or two.<\/p>\n
A ridge north of Megh is steering the tropical cyclone toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue during the weekend.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Megh could approach Socotra Island, Yemen in about 36 hours.\u00a0 It could be the equivalent of a hurricane at that time.\u00a0 Given the prior damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Chapala, Megh could have a significant impact on Socotra Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Megh moved slowly westward over the Arabian Sea on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Megh was located at latitude 12.9\u00b0N and longitude 60.4\u00b0E which put it about 420 miles (680 km) east of Socotra Island, Yemen.\u00a0 Megh was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 […]<\/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":[263,57,264,54,260,256,262,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}