Tropical Cyclone Berguitta strengthened over the South Indian Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Berguitta was located at latitude 18.2\u00b0S and longitude 63.3\u00b0E which put it about 420 miles (675 km) east-northeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Berguitta was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h. (8 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 994 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Tropical Cyclone Berguitta organized quickly on Saturday.\u00a0 An eye appeared on microwave satellite images of the center of circulation.\u00a0 An elliptical ring of showers and thunderstorms surrounded the eye.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Berguitta.\u00a0 There were more thunderstorms south and east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Berguitta were generating upper level divergence which was pumping away mass.\u00a0 The removal of mass allowed the surface pressure to decrease and the winds speeds to increase.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Berguitta will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Berguitta will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through an area where the upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Berguitta will likely intensify into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 It could intensify more rapidly once the eye and inner core become fully organized.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge south of Berguitta is steering the tropical cyclone slowly toward the west.\u00a0 A general motion toward the west is expected during the next day or two.\u00a0 In about 48 hours Tropical Cyclone Berguitta will be closer to the western end of the ridge and it could start to move more toward the southwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Berguitta could approach Mauritius and La Reunion in three or four days.\u00a0 Berguitta could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the southern hemisphere former Tropical Cyclone Joyce continued to drop locally heavy rain over parts of Western Australia.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of former Tropical Cyclone Joyce was located at latitude 25.4\u00b0S and longitude 115.6\u00b0E which put it about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of Gascoyne Junction.\u00a0 Former Tropical Cyclone Joyce was moving toward the west-southwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.\u00a0 The locally heavy rain was creating the potential for flooding in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Berguitta strengthened over the South Indian Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Berguitta was located at latitude 18.2\u00b0S and longitude 63.3\u00b0E which put it about 420 miles (675 km) east-northeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Berguitta was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h. (8 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":[622,313,84,74,623,300,612,942,941,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430"}],"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=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5431,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}