A tropical cyclone formed near the Andaman Islands over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone 05B was located at latitude 11.6\u00b0N and longitude 92.1\u00b0E which put it about 710 miles (1145 km) southeast of Visakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone was moving toward the north-northeast at 5 m.p.h. (8 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 997 mb.<\/p>\n
An area of thunderstorms moved from the western Pacific Ocean into the southeastern Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The area of thunderstorms turned slowly northward near the Nicobar and Andaman Islands.\u00a0 A distinct center of circulation began to organize inside the area of thunderstorms.\u00a0 The Indian Meteorological Department classified the low pressure area as a depression and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center designated the system as Tropical Cyclone 05B.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone 05B is still organizing.\u00a0 A primary band of thunderstorms wraps around the northern and western side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Additional bands of thunderstorms are forming in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Microwave satellite imagery suggests that an eye could be developing in the middle levels of the circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center are generating upper level divergence that is pumping out mass toward the northeast of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone will be moving through an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge to the west of the cyclone is producing northerly winds which are blowing across the top it.\u00a0 However, the vertical wind shear is not significantly inhibiting the organization of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone 05B could reach hurricane intensity in a couple of days.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is currently steering Tropical Cyclone 05B toward the north.\u00a0 The center is moving just to the west of the Andaman Islands.\u00a0 The subtropical ridge is forecast to strengthen and build toward the west.\u00a0 As the ridge strengthens and extends farther west, it will start to steer the tropical cyclone toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone 05B could approach the east coast of India in three or four days.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 05B will continue to bring gusty winds and heavy rain to parts of the Andaman Islands on Thursday.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone could bring strong winds, locally heavy rain, a storm surge and mudslides to southern India in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tropical cyclone formed near the Andaman Islands over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone 05B was located at latitude 11.6\u00b0N and longitude 92.1\u00b0E which put it about 710 miles (1145 km) southeast of Visakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone was moving toward the north-northeast […]<\/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":[588,589,134,135,371,56,264,590,174,587],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466"}],"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=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}