Tropical Cyclone Bakung intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the South Indian Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bakung was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0S and longitude 91.4\u00b0E which put the center about 390 miles (630 km) west-northwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Bakung was moving toward the west-southwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 971 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bakung intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the South Indian Ocean west-northwest of the Cocos Islands on Saturday.\u00a0 A very small circular eye developed at the center of Bakung’s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Bakung.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Bakung generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Bakung was very small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 10 miles (15 km) from the center of Bakung’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Bakung.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bakung will move into an environment that will become unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bakung will move under the southwestern part of an upper level ridge that is centered east of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Bakung’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bakung will start to weaken when the vertical wind shear increases.\u00a0 Because the circulation around Bakung is so small, it could weaken rapidly when the vertical wind shear increases.<\/p>\n
The northwesterly winds blowing toward the top of Tropical Cyclone Bakung will start to steer Bakung back toward the east on Sunday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Bakung will move back closer to the Cocos Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bakung intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the South Indian Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bakung was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0S and longitude 91.4\u00b0E which put the center about 390 miles (630 km) west-northwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Bakung was moving toward […]<\/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":[948,4060,67,328,4059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721"}],"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=23721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23722,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions\/23722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}