A tropical cyclone formed over the eastern Arabian Sea on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone 02A was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 70.8\u00b0E which put it about 400 miles (645 km) south-southwest of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms formed near the center of a low pressure system over the eastern Arabian Sea on Monday and the system exhibited sufficient organization to be designated a tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms around the tropical cyclone was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Most of the stronger thunderstorms were located in bands developing in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 The inner portions of a rainband was wrapping around the southern side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern half of the circulation consisted primarily of lower clouds and showers.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 02A developed southwest of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge was producing easterly winds which were blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear and they were the primary cause for the asymmetrical distribution of thunderstorms.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C. \u00a0 Wind shear will inhibit intensification, but it will not be strong enough to prevent Tropical Cyclone 02A from strengthening.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone will gradually intensify and it could strengthen to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.\u00a0 If an eye and eyewall form as part of an inner core and the wind shear decreases, then a period of rapid intensification could occur.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone 02A will move around the western end of the upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will steer the tropical cyclone toward the north-northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone 02A could approach the coast of Gujarat within 72 hours.\u00a0 it could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon by that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tropical cyclone formed over the eastern Arabian Sea on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone 02A was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 70.8\u00b0E which put it about 400 miles (645 km) south-southwest of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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":[1009,57,904,56,689,1514,903,55,1008],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774"}],"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=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}