Tropical Cyclone Elvis continued to spin near southwestern Madagascar on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Elvis was located at latitude 26.0\u00b0S and longitude 43.3\u00b0E which put the center about 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Beloha, Madagascar.\u00a0 Elvis was moving toward the south-southeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Although Tropical Cyclone Elvis strengthened on Wednesday, drier air appeared to be getting pulled into Elvis’ circulation.\u00a0 Many of the thunderstorms near the center of Tropical Cyclone Elvis dissipated. Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands in the southeastern part of Elvis’ circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the other parts of Tropical Cyclone Elvis consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 The few remaining thunderstorms near the center of Elvis were not generating much upper level divergence<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Cyclone Elvis was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 140 miles (220 km) in the southeastern part of Elvis’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out 50 miles in the northern side of Tropical Cyclone Elvis.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Elvis will move through an environment marginally favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Elvis will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the eastern side of an upper level trough near southern Africa.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce northwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Elvis\u2019 circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate to strong vertical wind shear. The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification of Tropical Cyclone Elvis.\u00a0 Drier air will also inhibit the intensification of Elvis.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear and the drier air are likely to cause Tropical Cyclone Elvis to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough near southern Africa will steer Tropical Cyclone Elvis toward the southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Tropical of Cyclone Elvis will pass south of southern Madagascar.\u00a0 Elvis will move away from Madagascar on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Elvis continued to spin near southwestern Madagascar on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Elvis was located at latitude 26.0\u00b0S and longitude 43.3\u00b0E which put the center about 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Beloha, Madagascar.\u00a0 Elvis was moving toward the south-southeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[643,3835,3841,85,339,3840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917"}],"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=21917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21918,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917\/revisions\/21918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}