Tropical Cyclone Garance battered La Reunion on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Garance was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0S and longitude 55.4\u00b0E which put the center about 35 miles (55 km) south-southeast of St. Denis, La, Reunion.\u00a0 Garance was moving toward the south at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 962 mb.<\/p>\n
The core of Tropical Cyclone Garance moved directly over La Reunion on Friday.\u00a0 Roland Garros airport (FMEE) measured a sustained wind speed of 61 knots (70 m.p.h. or 113 km\/h) and a wind gust of 83 knots (95 m.p.h. or 154 km\/h).<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Garance dropped very heavy rain on La Reunion.\u00a0 There were reports of flooding.\u00a0 Roland Garros airport (FMEE) measured 6.48 inches (164.6 mm) of rain.\u00a0 A weather station at Piton-Maido reported 18.49 inches (469.6 mm) of rain.\u00a0 A weather station at Cilaos reported 17.06 inches (433.4 mm) of rain.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Garance was a small tropical cyclone when it hit La Reunion.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of Garance’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Garance.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Garance was 17.8.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 8,8 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 26.6.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Garance was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Zeta when Zeta hit Louisiana in 2020.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Garance will be pulled around the eastern side of the larger circulation around Tropical Cyclone Honde.\u00a0 Garance will move toward the south during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Garance will move south of La Reunion later today.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Garance will weaken significantly during its passage over La Reunion.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Garance will move through an environment that will become unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Garance will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, it will move under the upper level outflow from Tropical Cyclone Honde.\u00a0 The upper level outflow from Honde’s circulation will cause the vertical wind shear to increase over Garance.\u00a0 The increase in vertical wind shear will cause Tropical Cyclone Garance to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Southwest Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Honde brought strong winds and heavy rain\u00a0 to southern Madagascar.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Honde was located at latitude 26.1\u00b0S and longitude 44.0\u00b0E which put the center about 190 miles (305 km) south of Toliara, Madagascar.\u00a0 Honde was moving toward the east-southeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 974 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Garance battered La Reunion on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Garance was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0S and longitude 55.4\u00b0E which put the center about 35 miles (55 km) south-southeast of St. Denis, La, Reunion.\u00a0 Garance was moving toward the south at 15 m.p.h. (24 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":[1470,1472,3879,3874,3876,650,84,85,3878,3877,1471,1473,1922,2819,3873,3875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080"}],"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=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22081,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions\/22081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}