Tropical Cyclone Idai formed over the Mozambique Channel on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Idai was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0S and longitude 42.5\u00b0E which put it about 135 miles (220 km) west-northwest of Maintirano, Madagascar.\u00a0 Idai was moving toward the southeast at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Idai organized quickly on Saturday.\u00a0 The inner portion of a rainband wrapped around the eastern and southern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Idai.\u00a0 Storms near the core began to generate upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Idai will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Idai will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Idai will continue to intensify and it could strengthen into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon within 36 hours.\u00a0 Once the inner core is fully organized, Idai could strengthen rapidly and it could intensify into the equivalent of a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Idai will move around the eastern end of a subtropical ridge over southern Africa.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Idai back toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Idai could approach the coast of Mozambique in about four days.\u00a0 Idai could be the equivalent of a major hurricane by that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Idai formed over the Mozambique Channel on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Idai was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0S and longitude 42.5\u00b0E which put it about 135 miles (220 km) west-northwest of Maintirano, Madagascar.\u00a0 Idai was moving toward the southeast at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[1455,1454,85,86,1456,348,1453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507"}],"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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}