Tropical Cyclone Dineo intensified on Tuesday as it moved closer to Mozambique.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dineo was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0S and longitude 37.5\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles (260 km) east-northeast of Inhambane, Mozambique.\u00a0 Dineo was moving toward the west-southwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 981 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dineo intensified on Tuesday and it was on the verge of reaching the intensity of a hurricane\/typhoon.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped most of the way around a circular eye.\u00a0 There was a break on the western side of the developing eyewall.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in thunderstorms in the eyewall.\u00a0 Several other bands of showers and thunderstorms were rotating around the core of Tropical Cyclone Dineo.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the core of Dineo were generating upper level divergence which was transporting mass away from the center of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Dineo will move through a favorable environment until it reaches Mozambique.\u00a0 Dineo will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The favorable environment will allow Tropical Cyclone Dineo to continue to intensify during the next 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 It will become the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Tropical Cyclone Dineo toward the west-southwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Dineo is expected to make landfall on the coast of Mozambique north of Inhambane in less than 24 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dineo will be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it makes landfall.\u00a0 Dineo will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain when it moves into Mozambique.\u00a0 Heavy rain could create the potential for flash floods.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Dineo will also produce a storm surge along the coast.\u00a0 The highest storm surge will occur south of where the center makes landfall as the clockwise rotation pushes water toward the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Dineo intensified on Tuesday as it moved closer to Mozambique.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dineo was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0S and longitude 37.5\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles (260 km) east-northeast of Inhambane, Mozambique.\u00a0 Dineo was moving toward the west-southwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[622,85,86,623,628,627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653"}],"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=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}