Tropical Cyclone Idai dropped heavy rain on parts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Idai was located at latitude 19.0\u00b0S and longitude 32.5\u00b0E which put it about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Mutare, Zimbabwe.\u00a0 Idai was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 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 985 mb.<\/p>\n
Although the wind speeds around Tropical Cyclone Idai decreased steadily on Friday, the circulation remained very well organized.\u00a0 An inner rainband wrapped most of the way around a well defined center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Idai.\u00a0 The strongest bands were occurring in the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of the circulation were still generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Idai dropped heavy rain from the coast of central Mozambique near Beira where Idai caused significant damage westward to the eastern Zimbabwe.\u00a0 Persistent heavy rain was likely causing flooding along some of the rivers in central Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Idai is forecast to continue to move toward the west-northwest and heavy rain is likely to spread over more of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Idai dropped heavy rain on parts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Idai was located at latitude 19.0\u00b0S and longitude 32.5\u00b0E which put it about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Mutare, Zimbabwe.\u00a0 Idai was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[1455,1457,1454,86,1460,348,1453,629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538"}],"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=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}