Tropical Cyclone Bianca weakened rapidly over the South Indian Ocean west of Australia on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bianca was located at latitude 25.7\u00b0S and longitude 102.7\u00b0E which put the center about 730 miles (1175 km) west of Carnarvon, Australia.\u00a0 Bianca was moving toward the south-southeast 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 999 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bianca weakened rapidly over the South Indian Ocean west of Australia on Wednesday.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Australia produced strong northwesterly winds that blew across the top of Tropical Cyclone Bianca.\u00a0 Those winds caused strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear blew the upper part of Bianca’s circulation to the southeast of the circulation in the lower levels.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Bianca consisted of bands of showers and lower clouds that were revolving around the low level center of circulation.\u00a0 Strong vertical wind shear was blowing the tops off of clouds that rose higher into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Bianca was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Bianca’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bianca will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bianca will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 23\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the eastern side of an upper level trough over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level trough will continue to produce strong northwesterly winds that will blow across the top of Bianca\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Cooler water and strong vertical wind shear will cause Tropical Cyclone Bianca to continue to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Since the circulation around Tropical Cyclone Bianca exists only in the lower levels of the atmosphere, Bianca will be steered by the weather features near the surface.\u00a0 Bianca will move around the northern side of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Bianca toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Bianca will move farther away from Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bianca weakened rapidly over the South Indian Ocean west of Australia on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bianca was located at latitude 25.7\u00b0S and longitude 102.7\u00b0E which put the center about 730 miles (1175 km) west of Carnarvon, Australia.\u00a0 Bianca was moving toward the south-southeast at […]<\/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":[357,3859,3566,358,3858,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061"}],"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=22061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22062,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions\/22062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}