At 11:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bansi was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0S and longitude 60.3\u00b0E which put it about 270 miles northeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Bansi was moving toward the east-southeast at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind was 105 m.p.h. and it was estimated there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was estimated to be 954 mb.<\/p>\n
An eyewall replacement cycle altered the structure of Tropical Cyclone Bansi.\u00a0 It previously had a small eye which had a diameter of 10-15 miles.\u00a0 The outer eyewall has not contracted significantly since the inner eye dissipated.\u00a0 Thus, Bansi is now a tropical cyclone with a large circular eye with a diameter of about 60 miles.\u00a0 The circulation around Bansi seems to have achieved a rough equilibrium\u00a0 with its surrounding environment and the intensity did not change much on Wednesday.\u00a0 Bansi remains over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and in an area of light upper level winds.\u00a0 So, it is still possible that some intensification could occur in the short term.\u00a0 When Bansi moves to a higher latitude it will encounter cooler water and more wind shear and start to weaken.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge near Bansi is expected to start to exert a greater influence and start to accelerate it toward the southeast at a faster speed in about 24 hours.<\/p>\n
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At 11:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bansi was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0S and longitude 60.3\u00b0E which put it about 270 miles northeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Bansi was moving toward the east-southeast at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind was 105 m.p.h. and it was estimated there were wind gusts […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}