Tropical Cyclone Ditwah moved north of Sri Lanka on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ditwah was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0N and longitude 80.8\u00b0E which put the center about 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Puducherry, India.\u00a0 Ditwah was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Ditwah was pulling in drier air from over India.\u00a0 The drier air caused the thunderstorms near the center of Ditwah’s circulation to weaken.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands in the northern and eastern periphery of Tropical Cyclone Ditwah.\u00a0 Bands in the other parts of Ditwah’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
Even though the thunderstorms near the center of Tropical Cyclone Ditwah weakened, Ditwah was still producing winds to tropical storm force.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 140 miles (225 km) from the center of Ditwah’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Ditwah will move through an environment marginally favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Ditwah will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western part of an upper level ridge that is over Southeast Asia and the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce southeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Ditwah\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification but the shear may not be enough to prevent some intensification.\u00a0 However, the drier air being pulled into Ditwah’s circulation is likely to inhibit the formation of new thunderstorms.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ditwah could maintain its intensity during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 However, the drier air is likely to cause Ditwah to weaken slowly during the next several days.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Ditwah will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Ditwah toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Ditwah will move nearly parallel to the coast of southeast India.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Ditwah will bring gusty winds and isolated heavy rain to parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Ditwah moved north of Sri Lanka on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ditwah was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0N and longitude 80.8\u00b0E which put the center about 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Puducherry, India.\u00a0 Ditwah was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. (11 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":[588,4053,56,264,2375,369,592,4052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684"}],"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=23684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23685,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684\/revisions\/23685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}