Tropical Cyclone Mekunu intensified over the Arabian Sea on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Mekunu was located at latitude 11.0\u00b0N and longitude 55.9\u00b0E which put it about 120 miles (195 km) southeast of Socotra Island.\u00a0 Mekunu was moving toward the northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Mekunu became much better organized on Tuesday.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped around the center of circulation and eye was evident at the center of circulation on microwave satellite images.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms developed and began to revolve around the core of Tropical Cyclone Mekunu.\u00a0 The strongest rainbands were in the western and northern parts of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 95 miles (155 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Mekunu will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Mekunu will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It is moving around the western end of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge is producing southerly winds which were blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will generate some vertical shear, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Mekunu is likely to intensify into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge was steering Tropical Cyclone Mekunu toward the northwest.\u00a0 A general motion toward the north-northwest is forecast for the next two to three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Mekunu will approach Socotra Island within 24 hours.\u00a0 The strongest part of Mekunu will pass over Socotra Island.\u00a0 It will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 Flash floods could occur.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Mekunu could approach the coast of western Oman and eastern Yemen in about three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Mekunu intensified over the Arabian Sea on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Mekunu was located at latitude 11.0\u00b0N and longitude 55.9\u00b0E which put it about 120 miles (195 km) southeast of Socotra Island.\u00a0 Mekunu was moving toward the northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 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":[1009,57,689,54,260,1010,256,1011,255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881"}],"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=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}