Tropical Cyclone Ockhi moved closer to India on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center to Tropical Cyclone Ockhi was located at latitude 17.9\u00b0N and longitude 70.7\u00b0E which put it about 170 miles (270 km) west-southwest of Mumbai, India and about 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Surat.\u00a0 Ockhi was moving toward the northeast at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 983 mb.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough over the northern Arabian Sea was producing strong southwesterly winds which were blowing across the top of Tropical Cyclone Ockhi.\u00a0 Those winds were causing significant vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Microwave satellite imagery was indicating that the shear may be strong enough to push the upper part of Ockhi’s circulation to the northeast of the lower part of the tropical cyclone’s circulation.\u00a0 The circulation in the middle and upper levels continued to show evidence of an eye surrounded by a ring of strong storms.\u00a0 Several bands of strong storms were occurring north of the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough is steering Tropical Cyclone Ockhi toward the northeast and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Ockhi will make landfall in Gujarat along the coast of the Gulf of Khambhat within 24 hours.\u00a0 Strong vertical wind shear will continue to weaken Tropical Cyclone Ockhi.\u00a0 Ockhi is likely to make landfall as the equivalent of a tropical storm.\u00a0 Drier air is wrapping around the southern side of the circulation.\u00a0 The heavy rain will fall over parts of Gujarat before the center of circulation reaches the coast.\u00a0 Locally heavy rainfall could create the potential for flash floods in some places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Ockhi moved closer to India on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center to Tropical Cyclone Ockhi was located at latitude 17.9\u00b0N and longitude 70.7\u00b0E which put it about 170 miles (270 km) west-southwest of Mumbai, India and about 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Surat.\u00a0 Ockhi was moving toward the […]<\/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":[560,57,904,905,56,561,903,55,906,902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245"}],"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=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}