{"id":320,"date":"2015-01-16T03:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2015-01-16T03:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:41:46","slug":"tropical-storm-chedza-forms-west-of-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Chedza Forms West of Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical cyclone closest to land is Tropical Cyclone Chedza.\u00a0 A cluster of thunderstorms meandering over the Mozambique Channel organized rapidly on Thursday and developed into Tropical Cyclone Chedza.\u00a0 At 9:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Chedza was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0S and longitude 42.4\u00b0E which put it about 140 miles west-northwest of Belo Tsiribihina, Madagascar.\u00a0 It was moving toward the east at 6 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 55 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n<p>Chedza is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are relatively light.\u00a0 Further intensification is likely until Chedza makes landfall on Friday.\u00a0 It is expected to weaken as it crosses Madagascar.\u00a0 Some re-intensification may be possible after the center emerges over the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar.\u00a0 Potential risks include locally heavy rainfall and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>A near equatorial ridge is steering Chedza eastward.\u00a0 It is expected to make landfall in 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to steer Chedza toward the east-southeast as it crosses Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical cyclone closest to land is Tropical Cyclone Chedza.\u00a0 A cluster of thunderstorms meandering over the Mozambique Channel organized rapidly on Thursday and developed into Tropical Cyclone Chedza.\u00a0 At 9:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Chedza was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0S and longitude 42.4\u00b0E which put it about 140 miles west-northwest of [&hellip;]<\/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\/320"}],"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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}