Tropical Cyclone 05S moved south of the Cocos Islands in the South Indian Ocean on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone 05S was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0S and longitude 96.6\u00b0E which put the center about 125 miles (200 km) south of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone 05S was moving toward the south at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 05S was moving under the western end of an upper level ridge that extended from Australia to the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge was producing northeasterly winds that were blowing toward the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear caused the distribution of thunderstorms in Tropical Cyclone 05S to be asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the western and southern parts of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Bands in the northern and eastern parts of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
The distribution of winds speeds around Tropical Cyclone 05S was also symmetrical. Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) in the southwestern quadrant of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The winds in the other parts of Tropical Cyclone 05S were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 05S will move through an environment unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will continue to move under the western part of an upper level ridge that extends from Australia to the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will continue to produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Tropical Cyclone 05S.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will inhibit intensification. Tropical Cyclone 05S is likely to start to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 05S will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer the tropical cyclone toward the south during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone 05S will move farther away from the Cocos Islands on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone 05S moved south of the Cocos Islands in the South Indian Ocean on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone 05S was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0S and longitude 96.6\u00b0E which put the center about 125 miles (200 km) south of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone 05S 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":[81,48,2],"tags":[622,67,623,621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799"}],"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=21799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21800,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}