Tropical Cyclone Kyant formed over the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Kyant was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 90.4\u00b0E which put it about 480 miles (770 km) east of Vishakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 Kyant was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 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 994 mb.<\/p>\n
A cluster of thunderstorms persisted over the eastern Bay of Bengal during the past few days, but strong upper level easterly winds prevented the development of the system.\u00a0 The upper level winds began to diminish on Monday and a low level circulation center began to develop on the eastern edge of the area of thunderstorms.\u00a0 When the upper level winds became weaker, then thunderstorms were able to develop closer to the center of circulation.\u00a0 The system acquired the structural characteristics associated with a tropical cyclone and the India Meteorological Department named it Kyant.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Kyant is still organizing.\u00a0 Some vertical wind shear continues because of easterly upper level winds being generated by a ridge northeast of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The shear is causing more of the thunderstorms to form in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 However, additional thunderstorms have developed closer to the center in recent hours and some spiral rainbands have formed.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center are generating upper level divergence which is starting to pump out mass in all directions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Kyant will be moving through a favorable environment during the next several days.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds should remain weaker, and the vertical wind shear will not be strong enough to prevent strengthening.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Kyant is likely to intensify and it could undergo a period of rapid intensification.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge is steering Tropical Cyclone Kyant toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Kyant could approach the east coast of India in about 48 hours.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds and very heavy rain to portions of eastern India later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Kyant formed over the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Kyant was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 90.4\u00b0E which put it about 480 miles (770 km) east of Vishakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 Kyant was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[560,134,135,371,56,561,559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324"}],"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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}