{"id":325,"date":"2015-01-16T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-01-16T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:30:50","slug":"tropical-cyclone-chedza-crossing-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Chedza Crossing Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Chedza is moving across the central portion of Madagascar.\u00a0 At 3:00 p.m. EST the center of Chedza was located at latitude 20.4\u00b0N and longitude 44.7\u00b0E which put it near Belo Tsiribihina.\u00a0 It was moving toward the east-southeast at 10 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>Low vertical wind shear and warm Sea Surface Temperatures created an environment favorable for intensification and Chedza strengthened prior to making landfall in western Madagascar.\u00a0 Satellite imagery indicated an eyelike feature formed and it is possible that Chedza may have reached hurricane intensity before landfall.\u00a0 The terrain of Madagascar is weakening the lower portions of the circulation and that trend should continue while the center is over land.\u00a0 It is possible that Chedza could strengthen after the center moves back over water east of Madagascar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Chedza is moving across the central portion of Madagascar.\u00a0 At 3:00 p.m. EST the center of Chedza was located at latitude 20.4\u00b0N and longitude 44.7\u00b0E which put it near Belo Tsiribihina.\u00a0 It was moving toward the east-southeast at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there were gusts to [&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\/325"}],"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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}