Tropical Cyclone Savannah formed over the southeast Indian Ocean north of Cocos Island on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Savannah was located at latitude 11.3\u00b0S and longitude 96.7\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (100 km) north of Cocos Island.\u00a0 Savannah was moving toward the south-southwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 997 mb.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for Cocos Island.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms formed near an area of low pressure over the southeastern Indian Ocean west of Australia and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Savannah.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms around Savannah was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms developed in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Rainbands in the eastern half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Savannah was moving south of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge was generating easterly winds which were blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear and they were contributing to the asymmetrical distribution of thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Savannah will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Savannah will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will continue to cause vertical wind shear, but the shear could decrease during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Savannah is likely to intensify during the next day or two.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Savannah will move near the western end of a strengthening subtropical ridge over Australia.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Savannah toward the south-southwest during the next day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Savannah will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to Cocos Island during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Savannah formed over the southeast Indian Ocean north of Cocos Island on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Savannah was located at latitude 11.3\u00b0S and longitude 96.7\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (100 km) north of Cocos Island.\u00a0 Savannah was moving toward the south-southwest at 8 […]<\/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":[350,644,1459,351,1458,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524"}],"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=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}