Tropical Cyclone Dudzai moved toward the west over the South Indian Ocean on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of the Tropical Cyclone Dudzai was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0S and longitude 75.9\u00b0E which put the center about 740 miles (1195 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Dudzai was moving toward the west at 6 m.p.h. (8 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
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai continued to be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon as it moved westward over the South Indian Ocean on Wednesday.\u00a0 Thunderstorms continued to develop near the center of Dudzai’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also occurring in bands revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Dudzai.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Dudzai generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was nearly equal to the convergence of the mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure was nearly steady on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The strongest winds were occurring in the southern half of Tropical Cyclone Dudzai.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 25 miles (40 km) in the southern half of Dudzai’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) in the southern side of Tropical Cyclone Dudzai.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles in the northern half of Dudzai’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will move into an environment that will become more favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will move farther away from cooler water it mixed to the surface while it moved slowly during the beginning of this week.\u00a0 Dudzai will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0\u00a0 It will move under the eastern side of an upper level trough that is over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce northwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Dudzai’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dudzai is likely to intensify on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will move around the northern part of a high pressure system over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Dudzai toward the west on during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Dudzai will remain far to the south of Diego Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Dudzai moved toward the west over the South Indian Ocean on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of the Tropical Cyclone Dudzai was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0S and longitude 75.9\u00b0E which put the center about 740 miles (1195 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Dudzai was moving toward the west at […]<\/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\/23871"}],"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=23871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23872,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions\/23872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}