Tropical Cyclone Faida developed just east of Madagascar on Monday morning.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Faida was located at latitude 18.1\u00b0S and longitude 50.3\u00b0E which put the center about 70 miles (110 km) east of the Toamasina, Madagascar.\u00a0 Faida was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system just to the east of Madagascar strengthened on early on Monday and Meteo France La Reunion designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Faida.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms in Tropical Cyclone Faida was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring mainly in bands in the western side of Faida’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern part of Tropical Cyclone Faida consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Faida generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the west of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speed in Tropical Cyclone Faida was also asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) in the western half of Faida’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the eastern side of Tropical Cyclone Faida were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Faida will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Faida will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the northern part of an upper level ridge over the Southwest Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Faida’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but Tropical Cyclone Faida could intensity during the next 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Faida will move around the northern part of a high pressure system over the Southwest Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Faida toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Faida will make landfall on the northern coast of Madagascar near Toamasina in 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Faida will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to northern Madagascar.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Faida developed just east of Madagascar on Monday morning.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Faida was located at latitude 18.1\u00b0S and longitude 50.3\u00b0E which put the center about 70 miles (110 km) east of the Toamasina, Madagascar.\u00a0 Faida was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 […]<\/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":[341,3847,85,338,939,3846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938"}],"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=21938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21939,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938\/revisions\/21939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}