Tropical Cyclone Sagar brought wind and rain to Djibouti and Western Somalia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Sagar was centered at latitude 10.1\u00b0N and longitude 43.4\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (165 km) south-southeast of Djibouti City, Djibouti.\u00a0 Sagar was moving toward the southwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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
Tropical Cyclone Sagar made landfall on the coast of northwestern Somalia near Bullaxaar on Saturday.\u00a0 Sagar was the equivalent of a strong tropical storm at the time of landfall.\u00a0 It moving south of an upper level ridge which was generating easterly winds which were blowing toward the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds were causing some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The stronger thunderstorms were occurring west of the center of circulation, which was probably due to the vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
Thunderstorms in the western half of Tropical Cyclone Sagar may have produced wind gusts to near hurricane force when Sagar made landfall on the coast of northwestern Somalia.\u00a0 The gusts were capable of causing minor wind damage.\u00a0 Sagar may have generated a storm surge of 4 to 8 feet (1.2 to 2.4 meters) near where the center made landfall.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Sagar was dropping heavy rain on parts of extreme western Somalia and Djibouti.\u00a0 The heavy rain was capable of producing flash floods.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Sagar has a small circulation and Sagar will likely weaken quickly as moves inland into drier air over eastern Africa.\u00a0 Even though it will weaken quickly, Sagar could also drop heavy heavy over parts of eastern Ethiopia and flash floods could occur in that region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Sagar brought wind and rain to Djibouti and Western Somalia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Sagar was centered at latitude 10.1\u00b0N and longitude 43.4\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (165 km) south-southeast of Djibouti City, Djibouti.\u00a0 Sagar was moving toward the southwest at 8 […]<\/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":[1002,1004,1005,596,261,368,363,256,1006,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869"}],"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=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}