Tropical Cyclone Vardah made landfall near Chennai and moved westward across southern India on Monday.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vardah was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 77.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (100 km) east of Bangalore, India.\u00a0 Vardah was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vardah was the equivalent of a hurricane when it made landfall and it brought strong winds and heavy rain to the area around Chennai, India.\u00a0 Vardah weakened steadily after making landfall and most of the thunderstorms have weakened.\u00a0 The spiral bands still contains scattered showers, but the winds have diminished.\u00a0 The low level circulation is still well organized and there is a distinct center of low pressure at the surface.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the north of Vardah continues to steer the tropical cyclone toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Vardah is expected to move over the Arabian Sea near Mangalore in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Some numerical models are suggesting that Tropical Cyclone Vardah could reorganize after the center moves back over the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Vardah made landfall near Chennai and moved westward across southern India on Monday.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vardah was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 77.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (100 km) east of Bangalore, India.\u00a0 Vardah was moving toward the west at 11 […]<\/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":[588,57,56,264,591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489"}],"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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}