Tropical Cyclone Vayu turned west over the northeastern Arabian Sea on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vayu was located at latitude 20.9\u00b0N and longitude 68.4\u00b0E which put it about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Porbandar, India.\u00a0 Vayu was moving toward the west-northwest at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 960 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vayu maintained its intensity on Thursday, but the circulation exhibited slightly less organization.\u00a0 A small eye continued to mark the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the eye, but there was a break in the northeastern portion of the ring.\u00a0 The circulation continued to pull drier air into the northern part of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Rainbands in the northern half of the circulation were weaker.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 125 miles (200 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vayu will continue to move through an environment capable of sustaining a tropical cyclone on Friday.\u00a0 Vayu will move under the axis of an upper level ridge where the winds are weaker and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The Sea Surface Temperature in the northeastern Arabian Sea is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, Tropical Cyclone Vayu moved slowly on Thursday and it may have stirred some cooler water to the surface.\u00a0 In addition, the circulation around Vayu will continue to draw in drier air from over south Asia.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Vayu could start to weaken slowly on Friday, although it could maintain its intensity if it moves away from the upwelled cooler water.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Vayu will be south of a strengthening ridge of high pressure over south Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will block Vayu and prevent it from moving farther toward the north.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Vayu slowly toward the west during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Vayu will remain southwest of Gujarat and south of Pakistan during the next two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Vayu turned west over the northeastern Arabian Sea on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vayu was located at latitude 20.9\u00b0N and longitude 68.4\u00b0E which put it about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Porbandar, India.\u00a0 Vayu was moving toward the west-northwest at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[1009,57,904,56,689,1514,55,1518,1515,1516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}