Drier air from the Arabian peninsula finally entered the circulation of Tropical Cyclone Megh and most of the convection weakened on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Megh was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 47.0\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles (240 km) east of Aden (Adan), Yemen.\u00a0 Megh was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 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
As Tropical Cyclone Megh moved closer to the coast of Yemen, it began to draw in drier air from the Arabian peninsula.\u00a0 As the drier air penetrated the circulation, it cut off the energy from the convection and most of the thunderstorms dissipated.\u00a0 Without a continuous supply of new energy Megh weakened and the wind speeds decreased.\u00a0 As the center of circulation approached the coast, friction over land increased low level convergence and new thunderstorms formed near the center.\u00a0 Those storms are producing winds to tropical storm force over the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Megh is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 The ridge is steering Megh toward the west-northwest.\u00a0\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Megh will make landfall near Ahwar, Yemen in a few hours.\u00a0 It is still capable of producing locally heavy rain and causing flash flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drier air from the Arabian peninsula finally entered the circulation of Tropical Cyclone Megh and most of the convection weakened on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Megh was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 47.0\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles (240 km) east of Aden (Adan), Yemen.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2,1],"tags":[263,261,264,54,260,256,262,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908"}],"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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}