Tropical Cyclone Vardah moved closer to Somalia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Saturday\u00a0 the center of Tropical Cyclone Vardah was located at latitude 9.3\u00b0N and longitude 56.9\u00b0E which put it about 465 miles (745 km) east of Eyl, Somalia.\u00a0 Vardah was moving toward the west-southwest at 18 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (70 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vardah has a small but well defined circulation.\u00a0 Several rainbands wrap close to the center.\u00a0 However, the rainbands are thin and thunderstorms are scattered along them.\u00a0 It appears that the circulation is pulling in drier air from the surrounding environment.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the core of the circulation are generating some upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Environmental conditions around Tropical Cyclone Vardah contain both positive and negative factors.\u00a0 Vardah is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is enough energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 The winds in the upper levels are not very strong and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Drier air seems to be the primary negative factor that is preventing intensification of Tropical Cyclone Vardah.\u00a0 The drier air could prevent significant intensification of Vardah, but the low level circulation could be strong enough to persist for several more days.<\/p>\n
A strong subtropical ridge north of Vardah is steering the tropical cyclone toward the west-southwest and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Vardah could approach the coast of Somalia in a little over 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vardah is small.\u00a0 It could produce gusty winds when it reaches the coast.\u00a0 Isolated areas could also receive locally heavy rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Vardah moved closer to Somalia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Saturday\u00a0 the center of Tropical Cyclone Vardah was located at latitude 9.3\u00b0N and longitude 56.9\u00b0E which put it about 465 miles (745 km) east of Eyl, Somalia.\u00a0 Vardah was moving toward the west-southwest at 18 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[588,57,264,54,256,591,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504"}],"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=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}