Tropical Cyclone Bulbul moved toward Kolkata, India on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was located at latitude 19.7\u00b0N and longitude 87.8\u00b0E which put it about 225 miles (360 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Bulbul was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. (13 k\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 861 mb.<\/p>\n
It appeared that Tropical Cyclone Bulbul may have pulled drier air from India around the southern and eastern sides of its circulation.\u00a0 Rainbands in those parts of the tropical cyclone consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Microwave satellite images provided some evidence of an eye at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms around the eye exhibited weaker sections on the eastern side of the eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in the ring of storms.\u00a0 Other strong bands of thunderstorms were present in the western half of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 35 miles (55 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 140 miles (220 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was 16.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size index (HSI) was 13.2 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 29.7.\u00a0 Bulbul was capable of causing serious damage.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul may be near its maximum intensity.\u00a0 Bulbul will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is sufficient energy in the upper Bay of Bengal to support further intensification.\u00a0 However, the introduction of drier air into the southern and eastern parts of the circulation will inhibit the development of thunderstorms in those portions of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Bulbul will move under the western end of an upper level ridge over southeast Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will produce some vertical wind shear which will also inhibit further intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bulbul could weaken when it nears the coast around the northern Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will move around the western end of the ridge over southeast Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Bulbul toward the north for another 18 to 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Bulbul could approach the coast of India south of Kolkata in about 18 hours.\u00a0 Bulbul will turn more toward the east when it moves around the northwestern part of the ridge in a day or so.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul could be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it makes landfall in West Bengal south of Kolkata.\u00a0 Bulbul will bring gusty winds to the coast of West Bengal and Bangladesh.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will be capable of generating a storm surge of up to 6 to 9 feet ( 2 to 3 meters) along portions of the coast around the northern Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 That area is particularly prone to storm surges.\u00a0 Bulbul will drop locally heavy rain over parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh when it moves inland.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul moved toward Kolkata, India on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was located at latitude 19.7\u00b0N and longitude 87.8\u00b0E which put it about 225 miles (360 km) south of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Bulbul was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. (13 k\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[220,134,1803,650,56,908,1802,1495,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817"}],"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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}