Tropical Cyclone Grant intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0S and longitude 86.3\u00b0E which put the center about 1030 miles (1660 km) east-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Grant was moving toward the west-southwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 986 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Grant continued to intensify slowly on Saturday.\u00a0 The circulation around Grant became more symmetrical.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Grant’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Grant generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease slowly.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Grant continued to be small. Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 20 miles (30 km) from the center of Grant’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Grant will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Grant will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western part of an upper level ridge over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Grant is likely to continue to intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Grant will move around the northern side of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Grant toward the west-southwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Grant will pass south of Diego Garcia in three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Grant intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0S and longitude 86.3\u00b0E which put the center about 1030 miles (1660 km) east-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Grant was moving toward the west-southwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 […]<\/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":[333,352,4062,334,4061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772"}],"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=23772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23773,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions\/23773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}