Tropical Cyclone Oma continued to spin over the Coral Sea northwest of Vanuatu on Thursday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Oma was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 165.1\u00b0E which put it about 260 miles (420 km) northwest of Port Vila, Vanuatu.\u00a0 Oma was nearly stationary.\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 979 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Oma exhibited evidence of greater organization on Thursday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped more tightly around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms also exhibited greater organization.\u00a0\u00a0 Storms around the center of circulation generated more upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 200 miles (320 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Once Tropical Cyclone Oma starts to move, it will move through an area favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Oma will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move into a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Oma will be likely to intensify and it will likely strengthen into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Oma has been in an area where the winds at the steering level were weak and it has moved little during the past several days.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Oma is forecast to strengthen during the next few days.\u00a0 When the ridge strengthens, it will start to steer Tropical Cyclone Oma toward the southwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Oma will move slowly away from Vanuatu and it could be north of New Caledonia in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Oma continued to spin over the Coral Sea northwest of Vanuatu on Thursday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Oma was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 165.1\u00b0E which put it about 260 miles (420 km) northwest of Port Vila, Vanuatu.\u00a0 Oma was nearly stationary.\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":[652,78,79,88,1443,964,653,1442,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404"}],"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=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}