Tropical Cyclone Titli brought wind and rain to India on Wednesday night when it made landfall.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Titli was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 84.4\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Brahmapur, India.\u00a0 Titli was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 955 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Titli intensified rapidly on Wednesday prior to making landfall on the coast of India near Brahmapur.\u00a0 An eye developed at the center of circulation and a ring of strong thunderstorms formed around the eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out about 50 miles (80 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Titli.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 170 miles (275 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Titli was 17.8.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 16.3 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Index (HWISI) was 34.1.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Titli was capable of causing regional serious damage.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Titli will move around the western end of an upper level ridge over the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Titli toward the north during the next 24 hours and then the tropical cyclone will move toward the northeast in a day or so.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical\u00a0\u00a0 Cyclone Titli will move slowly northward in Orissa state in India on Friday.\u00a0 Titli will cause wind damage and it will drop locally heavy rain over Orissa.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Titli will spin down slowly as it moves north over Orissa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Titli brought wind and rain to India on Wednesday night when it made landfall.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Titli was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 84.4\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Brahmapur, India.\u00a0 Titli was moving toward the west-northwest at […]<\/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":[1312,135,1322,650,56,1313,1323,1311,1310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850"}],"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=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/6851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}