Tropical Cyclone Bulbul strengthened into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the Bay of Bengal on Thursday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was located at latitude 16.5\u00b0N and longitude 87.5\u00b0E which put it about 400 miles (645 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Bulbul was moving toward the northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Bulbul exhibited greater organization on Thursday.\u00a0 Microwave satellite imagery indicated that an eye was forming at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms was developing around the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul.\u00a0 The strongest rainbands were in the northwestern half of Bulbul.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 15 miles (25 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 145 miles (230 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Bulbul will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western end of an upper level ridge over southeast Asia.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce southerly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 There will be southerly winds at all levels and there will not be a lot of vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will intensify during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
The ridge over southeast Asia will steer Tropical Cyclone Bulbul toward the north during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Bulbul could approach the area around Kolkata, India in less than 48 hours.\u00a0 Bulbul could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it approaches the coast around the northern end of the Bayof Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul strengthened into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the Bay of Bengal on Thursday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was located at latitude 16.5\u00b0N and longitude 87.5\u00b0E which put it about 400 miles (645 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Bulbul was moving toward the northwest […]<\/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":[220,1803,56,908,1802,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808"}],"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=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8809,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}