Tropical Cyclone Grant moved northeast of Mauritius on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0S and longitude 62.3\u00b0E which put the center about 480 miles (775 km) northeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Grant was moving toward the west-southwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Grant weakened slightly earlier on Saturday.\u00a0 However, more thunderstorms developed in Grant’s circulation on Saturday evening.\u00a0 Numerous thunderstorms formed in the bands in the western half of Tropical Cyclone Grant.\u00a0 New thunderstorms also started to develop in bands east of the center of Grant’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of Grant began to generate more upper level divergence that pumped more mass away from the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Grant will move through an environment that will be 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 northern part of an upper level ridge over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Grant\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear. The moderate wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear will be less than it has been during the past few days. Tropical Cyclone Grant could intensity 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 north of Mauritius and La Reunion on Monday.\u00a0 Grant could approach the east coast of Madagascar on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Grant moved northeast of Mauritius on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0S and longitude 62.3\u00b0E which put the center about 480 miles (775 km) northeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Grant was moving toward the west-southwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 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":[333,4062,84,85,74,1408,334,4061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811"}],"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=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23812,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions\/23812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}