Tropical Cyclone Honde moved away from southern Madagascar on Monday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Honde was located at latitude 27.5\u00b0S and longitude 46.9\u00b0E which put the center about 220 miles (355 km) south-southeast of Ambovombe, Madagascar.\u00a0 Honde was moving toward the southeast at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Honde appeared to be beginning the start of a transition to an extratropical cyclone as it moved away from southern Madagascar on Monday.\u00a0 Changes to the appearance of Honde’s circulation were evident on satellite images.\u00a0 Some drier air was being pulled around the northern side of the center of Tropical Cyclone Honde and a dry slot was visible in satellite images.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were still revolving around the center of Honde’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Honde still generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the southeast of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was less than the inflow of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure was increasing.<\/p>\n
The area of tropical storm force winds in Tropical Cyclone Honde decreased as Honde weakened.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Honde’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Honde will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification of a tropical cyclone during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Honde will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 26\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 Honde\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The moderate vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 The wind shear will cause Tropical Cyclone Honde to continue its transition to an extratropical cyclone during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough near southern Africa will steer Tropical Cyclone Honde toward the southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Tropical Cyclone Honde will continue to move farther away from southern Madagascar.<\/p>\n
Several bands in the northern periphery of Tropical Cyclone Honde were still over southern Madagascar.\u00a0 Those rainbands will continue to bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to parts of southern Madagascar during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Additional heavy rain will likely cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Honde moved away from southern Madagascar on Monday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Honde was located at latitude 27.5\u00b0S and longitude 46.9\u00b0E which put the center about 220 miles (355 km) south-southeast of Ambovombe, Madagascar.\u00a0 Honde was moving toward the southeast at 4 m.p.h. (6 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":[1472,3880,3876,85,1473,3875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102"}],"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=22102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22103,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions\/22103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}