Tropical Cyclone Iggy formed over the South Indian Ocean southeast of Christmas Island on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Iggy was located at latitude 12.5\u00b0S and longitude 107.9\u00b0E which put the center about 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Christmas Island.\u00a0 Iggy was moving toward the south-southeast at 11 m.p.h. (17 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
A low pressure system over the South Indian Ocean southeast of Diego Garcia strengthened on Wednesday evening and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Iggy.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms developed near the center of Tropical Cyclone Iggy on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 Thunderstorms also formed in bands revolving around the center of Iggy’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Iggy began to generate 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 Iggy was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) from the center of Iggy’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Iggy will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Iggy will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southwestern part of an upper level ridge that is northwest of Australia.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Iggy’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Iggy will intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Iggy will move around the southwestern side of a high pressure system that is northwest of Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Iggy toward the southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Iggy will move farther away from Christmas Island.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Grant weakened as it moved farther away from Diego Garcia.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0S and longitude 68.5\u00b0E which put the center about 670 miles (1080 km) south-southwest of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Grant was moving toward the west-southwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Iggy formed over the South Indian Ocean southeast of Christmas Island on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Iggy was located at latitude 12.5\u00b0S and longitude 107.9\u00b0E which put the center about 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Christmas Island.\u00a0 Iggy was moving toward the south-southeast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[333,341,898,352,4062,4072,334,338,4061,4071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799"}],"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=23799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23800,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions\/23800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}