Tropical Cyclone Jude brought wind and rain to southern Madagascar on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude was located at latitude 24.7\u00b0S and longitude 43.8\u00b0E which put the center about 85 miles (135 km) northwest of Beloha, Madagascar.\u00a0 Jude was moving toward the southeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Jude continued to strengthen gradually until it reached southern Madagascar.\u00a0 Jude was the equivalent of a strong tropical storm when the center made landfall on the coast of southwestern Madagascar.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 155 miles (240 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude.<\/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, the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude will move across southern Madagascar during the next 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Jude brought wind and rain to southern Madagascar on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Jude was located at latitude 24.7\u00b0S and longitude 43.8\u00b0E which put the center about 85 miles (135 km) northwest of Beloha, Madagascar.\u00a0 Jude was moving toward the southeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 […]<\/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":[1489,3835,3890,85,1490,3889],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162"}],"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=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22163,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions\/22163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}