Tropical Cyclone Bulbul made landfall southeast of Kolkata, India on Saturday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0N and longitude 89.2\u00b0E which put it about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Bulbul was movign toward the east-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul made landfall on the coast of West Bengal southeast of Kolkata, India on Saturday.\u00a0 The India Meteorological Department’s weather radar in Kolkata indicated that the eye of Bulbul crossed the coast of West Bengal.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon at the time of landfall.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 35 miles (55 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 125 miles (200 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
The northern section of the eyewall of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul moved across the southeastern part of West Bengal and the southwestern portion of Bangladesh.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the eyewall were dropping heavy rain over those areas.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms in the northeastern part of Bulbul were also dropping heavy rain over other parts of Bangladesh.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause floods in some locations.\u00a0 Southerly winds blowing around the eastern side of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul were pushing water toward the coast.\u00a0 Bulbul could cause a storm surge of 6 to 9 feet (2 to 3 meters) in some coastal locations.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will move around the northwestern part of a ridge of high pressure over southeast Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Bulbul toward the east-northeast during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will move over coastal areas of Bangladesh between Dhaka and Chittagong.\u00a0 Bulbul will weaken gradually as the center moves over land.\u00a0 The wind speeds and storm surges will gradually decrease.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Bulbul will continue to drop heavy rain over southern Bangladesh during the next 24 hours and the threat of fresh water floods will remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Bulbul made landfall southeast of Kolkata, India on Saturday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Bulbul was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0N and longitude 89.2\u00b0E which put it about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Kolkata, India.\u00a0 Bulbul was movign toward the east-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 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":[220,134,1803,1805,1498,56,908,1802,1495,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826"}],"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=8826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8827,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions\/8827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}