Tropical Cyclone Cebile has meandered south of Diego Garcia throughout this week.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Cebile was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0S and longitude 75.8\u00b0E which put it about 655 miles (1055 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Cebile was moving toward the southwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (205 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 155 m.p.h. (250 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 949 mb.<\/p>\n
Although it completed at least one eyewall replacement cycle, Tropical Cyclone Cebile maintains an impressive structure.\u00a0 There is a circular eye at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds are occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Several rainbands are revolving around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The storms in the core are generating upper level divergence which is pumping mass away.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extend out about 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 250 miles (400 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Cebile remains in an environment favorable for strong tropical cyclones.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is generally near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, Cebile has moved slowly during the past several days and its circulation may have mixed cooler water to the surface in some locations.\u00a0 The upper level winds are currently weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Cebile could maintain its intensity for another 24 to 36 hours unless it mixes more cool water to the surface.\u00a0 An upper level trough approaching from the west will increase the vertical wind shear in a day or two and Cebile could weaken more quickly when that occurs.<\/p>\n
Cebile is moving near the western end of a subtropical ridge which has been steering the tropical slowly toward the southwest.\u00a0 The approaching upper level trough will begin to steer Tropical Cyclone Cebile more toward the southeast in a day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Cebile is forecast to move farther away from Diego Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Cebile has meandered south of Diego Garcia throughout this week.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Cebile was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0S and longitude 75.8\u00b0E which put it about 655 miles (1055 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Cebile was moving toward the southwest 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":[948,352,84,74,328,612,947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496"}],"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=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}