Tropical Cyclone Horacio weakened on Tuesday as it moved over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Horacio was located at latitude 25.6\u00b0S and longitude 65.2\u00b0E which put the center about 415 miles (665 km) south-southeast of Port Mathurin, Rodrigues.\u00a0 Horacio was moving toward the south-southeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 960 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Horacio weakened on Tuesday.\u00a0 An upper level trough that was southeast of Madagascar was producing northwesterly winds that were blowing toward the top of Horacio’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear caused Tropical Cyclone Horacio to weaken.<\/p>\n
The eye was no longer visible on satellite images of Tropical Cyclone Horacio.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands revolving around the center of Horacio’s circulation.\u00a0 However, those thunderstorms were not rising as high into the atmosphere.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of Horacio generated less upper level divergence.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was less than the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure increased on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Even though Tropical Cyclone Horacio was weakening, the distribution of wind speeds was still fairly symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Horacio’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Horacio.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Horacio will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Horacio will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 26\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level trough that is southeast of Madagascar will continue to cause moderate vertical wind shear. \u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Horacio will continue to weaken on Wednesday because of the moderate vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough that is southeast of Madagascar will steer Tropical Cyclone Horacio toward the south-southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Horacio will continue to move farther away from Rodrigues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Horacio weakened on Tuesday as it moved over the South Indian Ocean.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Horacio was located at latitude 25.6\u00b0S and longitude 65.2\u00b0E which put the center about 415 miles (665 km) south-southeast of Port Mathurin, Rodrigues.\u00a0 Horacio was moving toward the south-southeast 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":[1470,4120,1925,1439,1471,4119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24100"}],"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=24100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24101,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24100\/revisions\/24101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}