A surface circulation formed over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday and the system was designated Tropical Cyclone 02B.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone 02B was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 88.9\u00b0E which put it about 640 miles (1030 km) south-southwest of Chittagong, Bangladesh.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone was moving toward the north-northeast at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
A low level center of circulation consolidated over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms in the inner part of the circulation developed west of the center.\u00a0 There were some thunderstorms in outer bands northeast of the center, but there were few thunderstorms closer to the core of the circulation in the eastern half of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The thunderstorms west of the center were producing upper level divergence which was pumping away mass to the west of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 02B will be moving through an environment that will be favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of the tropical cyclone is generating southeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are creating moderate vertical wind shear and the shear may be the reason why the thunderstorms were developing west of the center.\u00a0 The shear will be strong enough to slow intensification, but it will not prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone 02B will intensify during the next two days and it could become the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge located east of Tropical Cyclone 02B is steering it slowly toward the north-northeast.\u00a0 A general north-northeasterly motion is expected to continue during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Cyclone 02B could approach the coast of Bangladesh and northwestern Burma in about 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone 02B could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon by that time.\u00a0 It could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain when it makes landfall.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause fresh water flooding of rivers.\u00a0 In addition the winds on the eastern side of Tropical Cyclone 02B will push water in the Bay of Bengal toward the coast.\u00a0 A serious storm surge could occur along the coast east and near where the center makes landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A surface circulation formed over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday and the system was designated Tropical Cyclone 02B.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone 02B was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 88.9\u00b0E which put it about 640 miles (1030 km) south-southwest of Chittagong, Bangladesh.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone was […]<\/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":[688,134,135,371,56,689,687],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997"}],"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=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}