Tropical Cyclone Roanu moved closer to the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Roanu was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 87.8\u00b0W which put it about 200 miles (320 km) south of Kolkata, India and about 355 miles (575 km) west-southwest of Chittagong, Bangladesh.\u00a0 Roanu was moving toward the northeast at 11 m.p.h. (18 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 983 mb.<\/p>\n
On Friday Tropical Cyclone Roanu went through another cycle in which most of the thunderstorms dissipated near the center of circulation and then convection redeveloped rapidly.\u00a0 Thunderstorm activity is increasing at the core of the circulation and those storms are driving well developed upper level outflow.\u00a0 Several well formed bands of thunderstorms are rotating around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Roanu is more organized and it is a little more intense than it was 24 hours ago.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Roanu is in an environment that could support a little more intensification before it makes landfall on the north coast of the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 Roanu is under an upper level ridge which means the upper level winds are light and there is not much vertical winds shear.\u00a0 However, Roanu is getting closer to the north coast of the Bay of Bengal and it only has another 12 hours or so to intensify.<\/p>\n
A ridge east of Roanu is steering the tropical cyclone toward the northeast and that general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Roanu will be near the coast of Bangladesh in about 12 hours.\u00a0 Roanu is expected to continue moving toward the northeast after it makes landfall.<\/p>\n
Although Tropical Cyclone Roanu could cause some minor wind damage, its main threats will be locally heavy rain and a moderate storm surge.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Roanu could produce locally heavy rainfall, especially if the thunderstorm activity continues to pulse diurnally.\u00a0 The heavy rain could produce significant fresh water flooding over parts of northeastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma).\u00a0 In addition, the winds on the eastern side of Tropical Cyclone Roanu will be blowing toward the coast of Bangladesh and those winds will push water toward the coast.\u00a0 The north coast of the Bay of Bengal is particularly susceptible to storms surges and Roanu could bring a moderate storm surge to the coast of Bangladesh.\u00a0 The surge will be higher in the mouths of rivers and other locations where the shape of the coast funnels the water into specific locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Roanu moved closer to the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Roanu was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 87.8\u00b0W which put it about 200 miles (320 km) south of Kolkata, India and about 355 miles (575 km) west-southwest […]<\/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":[367,134,135,371,56,368,370,372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416"}],"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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}