{"id":369,"date":"2015-01-30T04:05:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-01-30T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:05:11","slug":"tropical-cyclone-eunice-reaches-the-equivalent-of-a-category-5-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Eunice Reaches the Equivalent of a Category 5 Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Eunice strengthened rapidly on Thursday as it moved over the South Indian Ocean and it has attained an intensity equivalent to that of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Eunice was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0S and longitude 67.7\u00b0E, which put it about 780 miles south-southwest of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 It was moving toward the south-southeast at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 160 m.p.h. and it was estimate that there were wind gusts to 185 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 918 mb.<\/p>\n<p>Eunice has been in an environment very conducive for rapid intensification.\u00a0 It has moved over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and upper level winds have been quite light.\u00a0 As a result deep convection has been ongoing around the core of the circulation and upper level outflow has pumped out large quantities of mass.\u00a0 Those processes caused the pressure to decrease rapidly and the wind speeds increased in a corresponding manner.\u00a0 Eunice will remain in a favorable environment for another day or so.\u00a0 After that time it will move to a higher latitude, which will place it in an area of lower Sea Surface Temperatures and more vertical wind shear.\u00a0\u00a0 Eunice is likely to weaken without threatening any land area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Eunice strengthened rapidly on Thursday as it moved over the South Indian Ocean and it has attained an intensity equivalent to that of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Eunice was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0S and longitude 67.7\u00b0E, which put it about [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}