A tropical cyclone has intensified rapidly north of La R\u00e9union during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bansi was located at latitude 17.1\u00b0N and longitude 55.1\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles north of Saint Denis, La R\u00e9union and about 250 miles northwest of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Bansi was moving toward the south-southeast at 5 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was estimated to be 974 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Bansi organized rapidly on Sunday and it exhibits a symmetrical shape with a well developed eye at its center.\u00a0 The circulation is small, but it has well developed upper level outflow to pump out mass.\u00a0 Bansi is over Sea Surface Temperatures that are warmer than 30\u00b0C which provide plenty of energy to intensify the circulation further.\u00a0 Bansi could intensify rapidly for another 24 hours and become a very strong tropical cyclone as it passes near Mauritius.<\/p>\n
Bansi is being steered to the south-southeast by a ridge of high pressure.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to continue to steer Bansi in a general southeasterly direction, although there could be short-term jogs to the east-southeast or south-southeast.\u00a0 The anticipated track could bring Bansi near Mauritius in 48-72 hours.<\/p>\n
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A tropical cyclone has intensified rapidly north of La R\u00e9union during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bansi was located at latitude 17.1\u00b0N and longitude 55.1\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles north of Saint Denis, La R\u00e9union and about 250 miles northwest of Port Louis, […]<\/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":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}