Tropical Cyclone Dana strengthened to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the northern Bay of Bengal on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dana was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0N and longitude 87.5\u00b0E which put the center about 245 miles (395 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Dana was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dana strengthened to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the northern Bay of Bengal on Wednesday night.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed close to the center of Dana’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Dana.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Dana’s circulation generated more upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of more mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds around Tropical Cyclone Dana was more symmetrical on Thursday morning.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Dana’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 130 miles (210 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Dana.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dana will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Dana will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge over the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dana will intensify during the next 12 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 reach the coast of India southwest of Kolkata in 12 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 strengthened to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the northern Bay of Bengal on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dana was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0N and longitude 87.5\u00b0E which put the center about 245 miles (395 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Dana was moving […]<\/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\/21437"}],"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=21437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21438,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions\/21438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}