Tropical Cyclone Dudzai rapidly intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane over the South Indian Ocean on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of the Tropical Cyclone Dudzai was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0S and longitude 77.8\u00b0E which put the center about 745 miles (1205 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Dudzai was moving toward the south-southeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 145 m.p.h. (235 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 962 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai continued to intensify rapidly on Sunday night.\u00a0 A small circular eye was present at the center of Tropical Cyclone Dudzai.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Dudzai\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Dudzai generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease rapidly.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Dudzai was small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of Dudzai\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Dudzai.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Dudzai will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge that is over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak in the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Dudzai could continue to intensify rapidly during the next few hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will move into a region where the steering winds are weak during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Dudzai is likely to move slowly toward the south during the next day or so.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will move a little farther away from Diego Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai rapidly intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane over the South Indian Ocean on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of the Tropical Cyclone Dudzai was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0S and longitude 77.8\u00b0E which put the center about 745 miles (1205 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Dudzai […]<\/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":[973,352,4081,974,4080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856"}],"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=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23857,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions\/23857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}