A stronger Tropical Cyclone Gelena moved toward Rodrigues on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Gelena was located at latitude 14.8\u00b0S and longitude 54.5\u00b0E which put it about 340 miles (550 km) north-northwest of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Gelena was moving toward the south-southeast at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 972 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Gelena strengthened into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Thursday.\u00a0 An eye cleared at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Gelena.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out about 35 miles (55 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 140 miles (225 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Gelena will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Gelena will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through an environment where the upper level winds are weak and the there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Gelena will intensify during the next 24 to 36 hours and it could strengthen rapidly at times.\u00a0 Gelena will likely become the equivalent of a major hurricane during the next 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Gelena will move south of a subtropical ridge which will steer the tropical cyclone toward the southeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the core of Gelena will pass north of Mauritius in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Gelena could approach Rodrigues in 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Gelena could be the equivalent of a major hurricane at that time.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Southwest Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclone Funani intensified into the equivalent of a major hurricane as it moved away from Rodrigues.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Funani was located at latitude 22.2\u00b0S and longitude 69.3\u00b0E which put it about 430 miles (690 km) east-southeast of Rodrigues, Mauritius.\u00a0 Funani was moving toward the southeast at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (215 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 950 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A stronger Tropical Cyclone Gelena moved toward Rodrigues on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Gelena was located at latitude 14.8\u00b0S and longitude 54.5\u00b0E which put it about 340 miles (550 km) north-northwest of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Gelena was moving toward the south-southeast at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[643,647,1438,1441,84,74,1408,1439,339,648,1437,1440],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374"}],"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=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}