Tropical Cyclone Maila formed over the Solomon Sea on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Maila was located at latitude 8.9\u00b0S and longitude 155.0\u00b0E which put the center about 515 miles (830 km) east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Maila was moving toward the north-northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Solomon Sea strengthened on Saturday and the system was designated as Tropical Cyclone Maila.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Maila was intensifying on Saturday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of Maila’s circulation.\u00a0 More thunderstorms also developed in bands revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Maila.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Maila generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds around Tropical Cyclone Maila was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 150 miles (240 km) in the northern side of Maila’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) in the southern half of Tropical Cyclone Maila.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Maila will be in an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Maila will be over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will be under the northwestern part of an upper level ridge that is over the Solomons.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Maila’s 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 Maila will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Maila is likely to strengthen to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Maila will be in a region where the steering winds are weak during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Maila is forecast to meander over the Solomon Sea because the steering winds are weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Maila formed over the Solomon Sea on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Maila was located at latitude 8.9\u00b0S and longitude 155.0\u00b0E which put the center about 515 miles (830 km) east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Maila was moving toward the north-northeast at 3 m.p.h. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,2],"tags":[3908,4145,4148,4147,3909,4146,4144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233"}],"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=24233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24234,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24233\/revisions\/24234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}