Tropical Cyclone Bheki will bring wind and rain to Rodrigues in the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bheki was located at latitude 18.4\u00b0S and longitude 64.4\u00b0E which put the center about 110 miles (175 km) northeast of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Bheki was moving toward the west-southwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 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 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bheki weakened gradually on Tuesday as it approached Rodrigues.\u00a0 The effects of vertical wind shear and drier air started to affect the structure of Tropical Cyclone Bheki.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands in the eastern side of Bheki’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western part of Tropical Cyclone Bheki consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Bheki generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the east of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
The effects of the vertical wind shear also affected the distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Cyclone Bheki.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 40 miles (65 km) from the center of Bheki’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 160 miles (260 km) in the southern side of Tropical Cyclone Bheki.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) in the northern side of Bheki’s circulation.<\/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 near Madagascar.\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.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bheki will continue to 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. On its anticipated track, the center Tropical Cyclone Bheki will pass just to the north of Rodrigues during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Bheki could be near Mauritius in 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bheki will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to Rodrigues. Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bheki will bring wind and rain to Rodrigues in the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bheki was located at latitude 18.4\u00b0S and longitude 64.4\u00b0E which put the center about 110 miles (175 km) northeast of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Bheki was moving toward the west-southwest at 12 […]<\/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":[598,3810,74,1439,599,3809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670"}],"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=21670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21671,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21670\/revisions\/21671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}