Tropical Cyclone Winston turned northeastward on Sunday and it began to move back toward Fiji.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Winston was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0S and longitude 179.9\u00b0E which put it about 345 miles (560 km) south-southeast of Suva, Fiji.\u00a0 Winston was moving toward the northeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (115 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 978 mb.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge located northwest of Winston generated southwesterly winds over the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The southwesterly winds produced moderate vertical wind shear, which caused Winston to weaken on Sunday.\u00a0 The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Winston remains fairly intact.\u00a0 A narrow band of thunderstorms is wrapped around the center of circulation and a remnant eyewall persists.\u00a0 Other bands of thunderstorms are rotating around the eastern side of the cyclone.\u00a0 Upper level divergence is still pumping mass out from the northeastern side of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Winston is currently over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 As Winston moves northward it will move over warmer water.\u00a0 It will also move into an area where the upper level winds are not as strong.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Winston could continue to weaken slowly for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 It may re-intensify in about two or three days.<\/p>\n
The subtropical ridge is likely to continue to steer Winston toward the northeast for anther two or three days.\u00a0 After that time the subtropical ridge may shift position and allow Winston to turn back toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Winston could move over the extreme southeastern islands of Fiji on Monday.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds, heavy rain and large surf to Vatoa, Ono-i-lau, Tuvana-i-colo, and Tuvana-i-ra.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Winston could affect portions of Tonga during the middle of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Winston turned northeastward on Sunday and it began to move back toward Fiji.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Winston was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0S and longitude 179.9\u00b0E which put it about 345 miles (560 km) south-southeast of Suva, Fiji.\u00a0 Winston was moving toward the northeast at 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,2],"tags":[336,89,88,338,307,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206"}],"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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}