A weakening Tropical Cyclone Maha moved back toward India on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Maha was located at latitude 19.8\u00b0N and longitude 66.7\u00b0E which put it about 425 miles (690 km) west of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 Maha was moving toward the east at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough over southwest Asia was producing westerly winds which were blowing toward the top of Tropical Cyclone Maha.\u00a0 Those winds were creating strong vertical wind shear which was causing Maha to weaken steadily.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Maha weakened to the equivalent of a tropical storm on Tuesday night.\u00a0 There was no longer an eye at the center of Maha.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were forming in rainbands east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the other parts of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 75 miles (120 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The westerly winds were also steering Tropical Cyclone Maha back toward India.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Maha could approach the coast of India between Mumbai and Diu in about 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Maha is likely to have weakened to the equivalent of a tropical depression by the time it nears the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A weakening Tropical Cyclone Maha moved back toward India on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Maha was located at latitude 19.8\u00b0N and longitude 66.7\u00b0E which put it about 425 miles (690 km) west of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 Maha was moving toward the east at 15 m.p.h. (24 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":[263,1801,56,264,1791,903,1790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795"}],"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=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}