Tropical Cyclone Chenge moved away from Diego Garcia on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Chenge was located at latitude 8.7\u00b0S and longitude 67.9\u00b0E which put the center about 310 miles (500 km) west-southwest of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Chenge was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Chenge strengthened a little on Sunday as it moved away from Diego Garcia.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the northern side of the center of Chege’s circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Chenge.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Chenge generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the west of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease slowly.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Cyclone Chenge was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 235 miles (380 km) in the southern half of Chenge’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 120 miles (195 km) in the northern side of Tropical Cyclone Chenge.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Chenge will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Chenge will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the northern side of an upper level ridge over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Chenge\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Chenge could continue to intensify on Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Chenge will move around the northern side of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Chenge toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Chenge will pass north of Rodrigues in a couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Chenge moved away from Diego Garcia on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Chenge was located at latitude 8.7\u00b0S and longitude 67.9\u00b0E which put the center about 310 miles (500 km) west-southwest of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Chenge was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h. (15 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":[619,4006,352,1439,620,4005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23401"}],"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=23401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23402,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23401\/revisions\/23402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}