Tropical Cyclone Jude meandered over Mozambique on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0S and longitude 35.9\u00b0E which put the center about 150 miles (240 km) north-northwest of Quelimane, Mozambique.\u00a0 Jude was moving toward the southwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Jude remained well organized on Tuesday even though Jude had been over land for more than 36 hours.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms continued to revolve around the center of Jude’s circulation\u00a0 Storms near the center of Jude’s circulation generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Jude was large.\u00a0 Jude was affecting the weather in Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar, eastern Zimbabwe, and southern Tanzania.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system that is centered north of Madagascar.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Jude toward the southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Jude will move back toward the Mozambique Channel.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude is not likely to intensify while the center of circulation is still over land.\u00a0 Jude will move into an environment favorable for intensification when it moves over the Mozambique Channel.\u00a0 Jude will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge over the Mozambique Channel.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Jude is likely to intensify when it moves back over the Mozambique Channel.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude will continue to drop heavy rain on parts of Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar, eastern Zimbabwe, and southern Tanzania.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Ivone remained far to the south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ivone was located at latitude 19.8\u00b0S and longitude 76.4\u00b0E which put the center about 925 miles (1495 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Ivone was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Jude meandered over Mozambique on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0S and longitude 35.9\u00b0E which put the center about 150 miles (240 km) north-northwest of Quelimane, Mozambique.\u00a0 Jude was moving toward the southwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[1485,1489,352,3892,3890,85,946,86,1432,1486,1490,361,3891,3889,629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148"}],"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=22148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22149,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148\/revisions\/22149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}