After several quiet weeks in the tropics a low level circulation developed in an area of thunderstorms northwest of Australia and the system was classified as Tropical Cyclone Quang (24S) on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Quang was located at latitude 15.2\u00b0S and longitude 109.7\u00b0E which put it about 550 miles northwest of Exmouth, Australia.\u00a0 Quang was moving toward the southwest at 6 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 65 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Quang developed over an area where the Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 A subtropical ridge to the east of Quang is generating some northeasterly winds over the circulation in the upper levels.\u00a0 The resulting vertical wind shear is slowing the intensification of the circulation.\u00a0 However, satellite imagery indicates that Quang is becoming more well organized.\u00a0 A primary rainband has wrapped most of the way around the center of circulation and an eye may be forming.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of circulation are increasing the upper level outflow, especially on the southern side of Quang.\u00a0 Further intensification is likely and Quang could reach hurricane intensity in 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Eventually, when Quang moves farther south, it will move over cooler SSTs.\u00a0 Vertical wind shear is also likely to increase at the same time, and Quang is likely to weaken as it approaches Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Quang is moving around the western end of the subtropical ridge.\u00a0 As it reaches the western end of the ridge, it is likely to take a more southerly track on Wednesday.\u00a0 By Thursday westerly winds are forecast to begin to steer Quang to the southeast.\u00a0 On its projected track, Quang would approach the coast of Western Australia in about three days.\u00a0 If it weakens as expected, Quang would bring some wind and rain when it moves across Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After several quiet weeks in the tropics a low level circulation developed in an area of thunderstorms northwest of Australia and the system was classified as Tropical Cyclone Quang (24S) on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Quang was located at latitude 15.2\u00b0S and longitude 109.7\u00b0E which put it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}