Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi was approaching northern Madagascar on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0S and longitude 53.5\u00b0E which put the center about 285 miles (460 km) east of Antsiranana, Madagascar.\u00a0 Dikeledi was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 991 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi intensified on Friday as it approached northern Madagascar.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the western and northern sides of the center of Dikeledi’s circulation.\u00a0 An eye appeared to be forming at the center of Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Dikeledi’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi became more symmetrical on Friday.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Dikeledi’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Dikeledi will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the northern part of an upper level ridge over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Dikeledi\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi will intensify during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Dikeledi could strengthen to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi will move around the northern side of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer DIkeledi toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi will reach northern Madagascar in 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to northern Madagascar.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi was approaching northern Madagascar on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0S and longitude 53.5\u00b0E which put the center about 285 miles (460 km) east of Antsiranana, Madagascar.\u00a0 Dikeledi was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 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":[948,2479,3830,85,328,3831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835"}],"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=21835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21836,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions\/21836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}