Tropical Cyclone Jude moved back over the Mozambique Channel on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude was located at latitude 19.9\u00b0S and longitude 37.8\u00b0E which put the center about 450 miles (725 km) west-northwest of Toliara, Madagascar.\u00a0 Jude was moving toward the southeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (60 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude began to intensify after the center of its circulation moved back over the Mozambique Channel on Wednesday night.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of Jude’s circulation.\u00a0 More thunderstorms also developed in the bands revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Jude generated more upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Jude will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge that is 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 will intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Jude toward the east-southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Jude will move toward southern Madagascar.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Cyclone Jude could reach the southern coast of Madagascar near Toliara in 36 hours.\u00a0 Jude will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to southern Madagascar.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Jude could also cause a storm surge of up to 7 feet (2 meters) on the west coast of Madagascar.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Ivone wes weakening east-southeast of Rodrigues.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ivone was located at latitude 22.5\u00b0S and longitude 68.0\u00b0E which put the center about 360 miles (580 km) east-southeast of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Ivone was moving toward the west-southwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Jude moved back over the Mozambique Channel on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude was located at latitude 19.9\u00b0S and longitude 37.8\u00b0E which put the center about 450 miles (725 km) west-northwest of Toliara, Madagascar.\u00a0 Jude was moving toward the southeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 […]<\/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":[1485,1489,3892,3890,85,1439,1486,1490,2819,3891,3889],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154"}],"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=22154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22156,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions\/22156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}