Thunderstorms near the center of Tropical Cyclone Fantala dissipated and it weakened as moved northeast of Madagascar.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT\u00a0 on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Fantala was located at latitude 11.5\u00b0S and longitude 54.5\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) east of Antsira\u00f1ana, Madagascar.\u00a0 Fantala was moving west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Fantala reversed course again on Saturday and it is moving over the same part of the South Indian Ocean that it already crossed twice during the past few days.\u00a0 The winds produced by Fantala mixed cooler water up to to the surface of the ocean during its previous passages over the same region.\u00a0 The cooler water means that there is less energy available to power the circulation of Tropical Cyclone.\u00a0 Although the winds continue to rotate around the center of circulation, there are no thunderstorms near the core of Fantala.\u00a0 There are still several thunderstorms in rainbands farther to the east of the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
If new thunderstorms do not develop around the core of the circulation, the winds will gradually spin down and the tropical cyclone will dissipate within a few days.\u00a0 Upper level winds blowing from the west-northwest are also generating some vertical wind shear, which will make it more difficult for new thunderstorms to form.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge southwest of Fantala is steering the tropical cyclone toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Fantala is forecast to pass north of Madagascar and move over the Seychelles.\u00a0 It could be even weaker by the time it gets to the Seychelles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thunderstorms near the center of Tropical Cyclone Fantala dissipated and it weakened as moved northeast of Madagascar.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT\u00a0 on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Fantala was located at latitude 11.5\u00b0S and longitude 54.5\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) east of Antsira\u00f1ana, Madagascar.\u00a0 Fantala was moving west-northwest at 10 […]<\/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":[350,363,84,85,74,86,351,361,355,354,349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383"}],"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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}