Megh intensified rapidly Saturday into a dangerous tropical cyclone as it neared Socotra Island, Yemen.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Megh was located at latitude 12.8\u00b0N and longitude 55.5\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) east of Socotra Island, Yemen.\u00a0 Megh was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 939 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Megh is the equivalent of a major hurricane even though it is a small storm.\u00a0 Megh is a very symmetrical cyclone.\u00a0 It has a five mile (8 km) wide eye which is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 The convection in the core is generating upper level divergence which in pumping out mass.\u00a0 Tropical storm force winds extend out 50 miles (80 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Megh will remain in a favorable environment until it reaches Socotra Island.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and there is vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Megh could intensify further until it reaches Socotra.\u00a0 It should weaken when the core of the circulation interacts with island.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Megh is steering the tropical cyclone toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Megh will reach Socotra Island in a few hours.\u00a0 it is capable of producing wind damage and flooding.\u00a0 Since Tropical Cyclone Chapala recently caused damage on Socotra, the impact of Tropical Cyclone Megh could be significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Megh intensified rapidly Saturday into a dangerous tropical cyclone as it neared Socotra Island, Yemen.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Megh was located at latitude 12.8\u00b0N and longitude 55.5\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) east of Socotra Island, Yemen.\u00a0 Megh was moving toward the west at […]<\/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":[263,57,261,264,54,260,256,262,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"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=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}