Tropical Cyclone Mona formed north of Fiji on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Mona was located at latitude 11.6\u00b0S and longitude 178.1\u00b0E which put it about 460 miles (745 km) north of Suva, Fiji.\u00a0 Mona was moving toward the south-southeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
A distinct low level center of circulation formed within an area of thunderstorms north of Fiji and the Fiji Meteorological Service designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Mona.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Mona was still organizing.\u00a0 There was a small cluster of thunderstorms around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming and those bands were revolving around the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Mona will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next two days.\u00a0 Mona will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move around the western end of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce northerly winds which will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The shear will inhibit strengthening, but it will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Mona will intensify during the next 36 to 48 hours and it could strengthen into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge will steer Tropical Cyclone Mona toward the south-southeast during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Mona could approach Fiji in 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Mona could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it nears Fiji.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the South Pacific Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Penny was reorganizing over the Coral Sea east of Queensland.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Penny was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0S and longitude 152.2\u00b0E which put it about 470 miles (760 km) east-northeast of Cairns, Australia.\u00a0 Penny was moving toward the east-southeast at 24 m.p.h. (39 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 987 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Mona formed north of Fiji on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Mona was located at latitude 11.6\u00b0S and longitude 178.1\u00b0E which put it about 460 miles (745 km) north of Suva, Fiji.\u00a0 Mona was moving toward the south-southeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,76,2],"tags":[953,956,78,991,79,89,1421,1413,82,334,987,1420,1412,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264"}],"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=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}