A well defined center of circulation developed in the lower levels of an area of thunderstorms near the southwest coast of Madagascar and the system was designated as Tropical Cyclone Fundi.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Fundi was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0N and longitude 42.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles west of Toliara, Madagascar.\u00a0 Fundi was moving toward the southeast at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 50 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.<\/p>\n
The environment around Fundi contains some factors that would support intensification and other factors that would inhibit intensification.\u00a0 It is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and there is well developed outflow in the upper levels.\u00a0 Those factors would favor intensification.\u00a0 However, the center of circulation is very close to the coast of Madagascar and part of the circulation is over land.\u00a0 Interaction with land will inhibit future intensification.\u00a0 If the center of circulation remains over the water, then some intensification is possible during the next day or two.\u00a0 If the center of circulation moves over southern Madagascar, then it will weaken.\u00a0 Eventually, Fundi will move poleward and encounter colder Sea Surface Temperatures and more vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
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A subtropical ridge located east of Fundi is steering the tropical cyclone toward the southeast.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to continue to steer it toward the southeast or south in the short term.\u00a0 As Fundi moves farther south, it will begin to encounter upper level westerly winds which will turn it more toward the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A well defined center of circulation developed in the lower levels of an area of thunderstorms near the southwest coast of Madagascar and the system was designated as Tropical Cyclone Fundi.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Fundi was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0N and longitude 42.9\u00b0E which put it about […]<\/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\/386"}],"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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}