Tropical Cyclone Frances intensified into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Friday as it moved northwest of Australia.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Frances was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 124.1\u00b0E which put it about 200 miles (325 km) north of Kuri Bay, Australia.\u00a0 Frances was moving toward the west-southwest at 9 m.p.h. (14 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 981 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Frances intensified into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it moved through a favorable environment.\u00a0 Frances moved over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) was near 30\u00b0C and the upper level winds were weak.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped almost entirely around the center of circulation and an eyelike feature seemed to be indicated on some satellite imagery.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the eye generated upper level divergence which pumped out mass and the circulation assumed a more symmetrical circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms formed in the outer portions of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Frances may have reached its peak intensity.\u00a0 Frances will continue to move over water where the SST is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, it is about to move near the western end of an upper level ridge where there are stronger northerly winds.\u00a0 Those stronger winds will create much more vertical wind shear and Tropical Cyclone Frances is likely to weaken during the next several days.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the east of Frances is steering the tropical cyclone toward the west-southwest and that general motion is forecast to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Frances poses no threat to Western Australia, although it could cause increased wave action along the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Frances intensified into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Friday as it moved northwest of Australia.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Frances was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 124.1\u00b0E which put it about 200 miles (325 km) north of Kuri Bay, Australia.\u00a0 Frances was moving toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[672,673,641,671,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906"}],"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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}