Tropical Cyclone Dana formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Dana was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0N and longitude 88.8\u00b0E which put the center about 370 miles (595 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Dana was moving toward the north-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal strengthened on Wednesday morning and the India Meteorological Department designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Dana.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Dana exhibited more organization on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the southern side of the center of Dana’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of thunderstorms were occurring in the western side of Tropical Cyclone Dana.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern sides of Dana’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Dana generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dana will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Dana will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge that extends from Southeast Asia to over the northern Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Dana’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dana will intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dana will move around the western side of a high pressure system over Southeast Asia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Dana toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Dana will move toward the coast of India.\u00a0 Dana is likely to approach the coast southwest of Kolkata in 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dana will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to Odisha and West Bengal.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Dana will also cause a storm surge of up to 7 feet (2 meters) along the coast of Odisha and West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Dana formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Dana was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0N and longitude 88.8\u00b0E which put the center about 370 miles (595 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Dana was moving toward the north-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\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],"tags":[560,3790,56,561,908,1496,3789,1495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426"}],"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=21426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21427,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions\/21427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}