Tropical Cyclone Asna formed over the northern Arabian Sea south of Pakistan on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Asna was located at latitude 23.9\u00b0N and longitude 66.4\u00b0E which put the center about 65 miles (105 km) south of Karachi, Pakistan. Asna was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Arabian Sea south of Pakistan strengthened on Friday and the India Meteorological Department designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Asna.\u00a0 There was a distinct low level center of circulation in Tropical Cyclone Asna.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the southern half of Asna’c circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the northern part of Tropical Cyclone Asna consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Asna’s circulation generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the southwest of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Asna.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Asna will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Asna will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 There is a large mass of drier air over Southwest Asia.\u00a0 The circulation around the northern side of Asna could draw drier air into the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Asna could strengthen during the next 24 hours, if it does not pull too much drier air into its circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Asna will move around the southeastern part of a high pressure system over Southwest Asia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Asna toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Asna will move parallel to the coast of Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Bands in the northern side of Tropical Cyclone Asna could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to southern Pakistan.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Asna formed over the northern Arabian Sea south of Pakistan on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Asna was located at latitude 23.9\u00b0N and longitude 66.4\u00b0E which put the center about 65 miles (105 km) south of Karachi, Pakistan. Asna was moving toward the west at 10 […]<\/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":[1009,3700,689,1514,55,3699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985"}],"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=20985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20987,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions\/20987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}