Tropical Cyclone Bakung weakened as it moved over the South Indian Ocean west-northwest of the Cocos Islands on Monday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bakung was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0S and longitude 92.9\u00b0E which put the center about 300 miles (485 km) west-northwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Bakung was moving toward the east at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h). The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
Stronger vertical wind shear caused Tropical Cyclone Bakung to weaken on Monday.\u00a0 There were still thunderstorms around the center of Bakung’s circulation.\u00a0 However, the vertical wind shear inhibited the upper level divergence.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Bakung pumped less mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was less than the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure increased on Monday.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Bakung was very small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 65 miles (105 km) from the center of Bakung’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bakung will move through an environment that will continue to be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bakung will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It 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\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will continue to cause the moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The moderate vertical wind shear will cause Tropical Cyclone Bakung to continue to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The northwesterly winds blowing toward the top of Tropical Cyclone Bakung will continue to steer Bakung toward the east during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Bakung will move closer to the Cocos Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bakung weakened as it moved over the South Indian Ocean west-northwest of the Cocos Islands on Monday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bakung was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0S and longitude 92.9\u00b0E which put the center about 300 miles (485 km) west-northwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Bakung was […]<\/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\/23731"}],"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=23731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23732,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions\/23732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}