Tropical Cyclone Ockhi strengthened quickly southwest of India on Thursday.\u00a0 At 7:00 a.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ockhi was located at latitude 8.0\u00b0N and longitude 76.2\u00b0E which put it about 810 miles (1305 km) south-southeast of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 Ockhi was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
The core of the circulation of a tropical depression that developed near Sri Lanka on Wednesday organized quickly on Thursday.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped most of the way around the center of circulation and an eye began to appear on some satellite imagery.\u00a0 The storms in the eyewall were strongest west of the eye and weakest north of the eye.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms formed outside the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Ockhi generated strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the north and west of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The divergence was allowing the surface pressure to decrease and the wind speeds to increase.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Ockhi will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Ockhi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ockhi is near the western end of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge is producing southeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are causing some vertical wind shear, but they are also enhancing the upper level divergence to the north and west of Tropical Cyclone Ockhi.\u00a0 The positive effects of enhanced divergence will exceed the negative effects of the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ockhi will continue to intensify and it could intensify rapidly.\u00a0 Ockhi will likely become the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge is currently steering Tropical Cyclone Ockhi toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 Ockhi will turn more toward the north in a day or two when it reaches the western end of the ridge.\u00a0\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Ockhi will move farther away from the coast of India during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 The outer rainbands on the eastern side of Ockhi will drop locally heavy rain over portions of southern India and flash floods could occur in some places.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ockhi is likely to turn toward the northeast in three or four days and it could eventually make landfall in western India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Ockhi strengthened quickly southwest of India on Thursday.\u00a0 At 7:00 a.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ockhi was located at latitude 8.0\u00b0N and longitude 76.2\u00b0E which put it about 810 miles (1305 km) south-southeast of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 Ockhi was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[560,57,56,561,903,369,902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221"}],"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=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}