Tropical Cyclone Dineo started to move slowly toward Mozambique on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dineo was located at latitude 22.0\u00b0S and longitude 38.9\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (430 km) east-northeast of Inhambane, Mozambique.\u00a0 Dineo was moving toward the west-southwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 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
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Dineo became more organized on Monday.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped tightly around the eastern side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Recent microwave satellite imagery hinted at the formation of an eye at the center of circulation and a broken eyewall around the developing eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in thunderstorms in the primary rainband.\u00a0 Additional bands of thunderstorms developed in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 A few thunderstorms formed west of the center, but most of the bands in that part of the circulation consist of low clouds and showers.\u00a0 There may be some drier air in the western part of the circulation and the drier air may be inhibiting the development of thunderstorms in that region.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center of circulation are generating upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dineo will be moving through a favorable environment during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 It will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge centered over southern Africa will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will produce some wind shear and they will limit upper level divergence on the western side of the circulation.\u00a0 While the wind shear may slow the rate of intensification during the next 24 hours, Tropical Cyclone Dineo should strengthen on Tuesday.\u00a0 Dineo could intensify into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon before it reaches the coast of Mozambique.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dineo is near the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it slowly toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 That ridge is expected to continue to steer Tropical Cyclone Dineo toward the west-northwest during the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Eventually, the ridge is expected to get stronger and extend westward.\u00a0 When that happens, the ridge could steer Dineo more toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Dineo could approach the coast of Mozambique north of Inhambane in 24 to 30 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dineo could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it reaches Mozambique.\u00a0 It will bring gusty winds and heavy rain to parts of Mozambique.\u00a0 Dineo could also generate a storm surge at the coast when it makes landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Dineo started to move slowly toward Mozambique on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dineo was located at latitude 22.0\u00b0S and longitude 38.9\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (430 km) east-northeast of Inhambane, Mozambique.\u00a0 Dineo was moving toward the west-southwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 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":[622,85,86,623,627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"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=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}