Tropical Cyclone Maarutha strengthened over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Maarutha was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 91.7\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) southwest of Sandoway, Burma.\u00a0 Maarutha was moving toward the northeast at 18 m.p.h. (29 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 993 mb.<\/p>\n
A primary rainband wrapped around the western side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The band was broken on the eastern side of the center.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the northern and eastern periphery of the circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the primary rainband were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass out to the northeast of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Maarutha will be moving through an environment that will be moderately favorable for intensification during the next 12-24 hours.\u00a0 Maarutha will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Maarutha is producing southwesterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds are causing moderate vertical wind shear which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Despite the vertical wind shear Tropical Cyclone Maarutha could intensify further before it makes landfall in Burma in 18 to 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge east of Maarutha is steering the tropical cyclone toward the northeast and that general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Maarutha will make landfall in Burma between Sittwe and Bassein near Sandoway.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Maarutha will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to Burma when it makes landfall.\u00a0 Some storm surge is likely south of where the center makes landfall and the wind blows the water toward the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Maarutha strengthened over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Maarutha was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 91.7\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) southwest of Sandoway, Burma.\u00a0 Maarutha was moving toward the northeast at 18 m.p.h. (29 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":[367,135,371,43,173,174,659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845"}],"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=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}