Tropical Cyclone Vardah turned toward India and strengthened on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vardah was located at latitude 12.5\u00b0N and longitude 88.7\u00b0E which put it about 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Visakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 Vardah was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
Many more thunderstorms formed around the core of Tropical Cyclone Vardah and it exhibited a more symmetrical, circular shape on Friday.\u00a0 The increasing organization of the circulation include multiple spiral rainbands in the outer portions of the cyclone.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the core of Vardah generated strong upper level divergence which pumped out mass and allowed the pressure to decrease more quickly.\u00a0 An increased pressure gradient force generated stronger winds.<\/p>\n
The environment around Tropical Cyclone Vardah has become much more favorable for intensification.\u00a0 An upper level ridge to the east of Vardah was causing southeasterly winds and was producing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Those winds have diminished and the wind shear is much less.\u00a0 Since Vardah is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C, it is efficiently extracting energy from the ocean.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Vardah will continue to intensify during the next 24 hours and it could intensify rapidly.\u00a0 Vardah is likely to become the equivalent of a hurricane on Saturday.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Vardah is strengthening and building toward the west.\u00a0 The ridge is steering Tropical Cyclone Vardah toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Vardah could approach the coast of southeast India in two or three days.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vardah could bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of southeastern India in three or four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Vardah turned toward India and strengthened on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vardah was located at latitude 12.5\u00b0N and longitude 88.7\u00b0E which put it about 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Visakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 Vardah was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[588,135,56,264,369,591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472"}],"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=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}