Tropical Cyclone Bheki weakened over the South Indian Ocean on Monday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bheki was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0S and longitude 68.1\u00b0E which put the center about 345 miles (555 km) east-northeast of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Bheki was moving toward the west-southwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.<\/p>\n
More vertical wind shear caused Tropical Cyclone Bheki to weaken on Monday as it moved over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 It was no longer possible to detect an eye on satellite images of Bheki.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring around the center of Bheki’s circulation.\u00a0 Those thunderstorms generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the east of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Bheki.<\/p>\n
There was still a large area of strong winds in Tropical Cyclone Bheki.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 65 miles (105 km) from the center of Bheki\u2019s circulation. Winds to tropical storm force extended out 140 miles (225 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Bheki.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Bheki was 12.7.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 19.2 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size INdex (HWISI) was 31.9.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bheki was similar in intensity to Hurricane Matthew when Matthew hit North Carolina\u00a0 in 2016.\u00a0 Bheki was bigger than Matthew was.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bheki will continue to move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bheki will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 26\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the eastern side of an upper level trough over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level level trough will produce northwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Bheki\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those upper level winds will cause the moderate vertical wind shear. Tropical Cyclone Bheki will weaken during the next 24 hours because of the moderate vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bheki will move around the northwestern part of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Bheki toward the west-southwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center Tropical Cyclone Bheki will approach Rodrigues in 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bheki will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to Rodrigues.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bheki weakened over the South Indian Ocean on Monday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bheki was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0S and longitude 68.1\u00b0E which put the center about 345 miles (555 km) east-northeast of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Bheki was moving toward the west-southwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[598,3810,650,1439,599,3809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664"}],"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=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21665,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions\/21665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}