A tropical depression formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday the center of the tropical depression was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0N and longitude 83.3\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) south of Visakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the north-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
A low level center of circulation developed on the southwestern edge of a cluster of showers and thunderstorms over the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Meteorological Department classified the system as a depression.\u00a0 The circulation is not particularly well organized.\u00a0 As noted above, the low level center is on the southwestern side of showers and thunderstorms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and storms formed northeast of the center.\u00a0 There were not many thunderstorms near the center of circulation.\u00a0 There were bands of showers and lower clouds in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 An upper level trough over India is producing southwesterly winds which are blowing over the top of the depression.\u00a0 Those winds are causing moderate vertical wind shear, which is tilting the upper part of the depression to the northeast of the low level center of circulation.\u00a0 The depression also appears to be pulling drier air from India around the western side of the circulation.\u00a0 The combination of wind shear and drier air is probably responsible for the asymmetrical distribution of thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
The depression will move through an environment that is marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will move over water there the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is enough energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 However, the upper level trough over India will continue to cause moderate vertical wind shear, which will inhibit the consolidation of the low level circulation.\u00a0 The depression is also likely to continue to draw in drier air from over India into the western part of the circulation.\u00a0 The depression could strengthen, but it could also weaken if the upper level winds get stronger.<\/p>\n
The trough over India is steering the depression slowly toward the north-northeast and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the depression is expected to move toward the northern Bay of Bengal during the next several days.\u00a0 The depression could make landfall over northeastern India or Bangladesh later this week.<\/p>\n
The primary risk from the depression will be locally heavy rain, which could cause flash floods in parts of eastern India and Bangladesh.\u00a0 The wind will push water toward the north coast of the Bay of Bengal and the depression could cause a storm surge of several feet (approximately one meter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tropical depression formed over the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday the center of the tropical depression was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0N and longitude 83.3\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) south of Visakhapatnam, India.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the north-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[884,134,135,56,883,885,886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178"}],"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=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}