Tropical Cyclone Horacio moved over the South Indian Ocean toward Rodrigues on Sunday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Horacio was located at latitude 18.1\u00b0S and longitude 67.8\u00b0E which put the center about 320 miles (515 km) east-northeast of Port Mathurin, Rodrigues.\u00a0 Horacio was moving toward the west-southwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Horacio strengthened on Sunday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the northern side of the center of Horatio’s circulation.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed in bands revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Horacio.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Horacio generated upper level divergence that pumped more mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of more mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Cyclone Horacio became more symmetrical when Horacio strengthened on Sunday.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) from the center of Horacio’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Horacio will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Horacio 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 that is over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will continue to produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Horacio\u2019s 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 Horacio will intensify during the next 24 hours. Horacio could intensify rapidly at times.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Horacio is likely to strengthen to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon by Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Horacio will move around the northwestern part of a high pressure system that is over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Horacio toward the southwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Horacio will pass east of Rodrigues in 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Horacio moved over the South Indian Ocean toward Rodrigues on Sunday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Horacio was located at latitude 18.1\u00b0S and longitude 67.8\u00b0E which put the center about 320 miles (515 km) east-northeast of Port Mathurin, Rodrigues.\u00a0 Horacio was moving toward the west-southwest at 11 […]<\/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":[1470,4118,1925,1439,1471,4117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081"}],"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=24081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24092,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions\/24092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}