Tropical Cyclone Claudia strengthened into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the South Indian Ocean northwest of Australia on Sunday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Claudia was located at latitude 16.0\u00b0S and longitude 117.9\u00b0E which put it about 290 miles (465 km) north of Port Hedland, Australia.\u00a0 Claudia was moving toward the west-southwest at 25 m.p.h. (40 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 971 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Claudia strengthened over the warm water northwest of Australia on Sunday.\u00a0 A small circular eye formed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Claudia.\u00a0 The stronger rainbands were in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the core of the circulation were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the west of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 20 miles (30 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Claudia will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Claudia will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move around the northwestern part of an upper level ridge centered over Australia.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds will produce moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will slow the rate of intensification, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent Claudia from getting strong during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Claudia will move around the northwestern side of a high pressure system over Australia.\u00a0 The high will steer Claudia toward the west-southwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the core of Tropical Cyclone Claudia will remain well off the coast of Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Claudia strengthened into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon over the South Indian Ocean northwest of Australia on Sunday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Claudia was located at latitude 16.0\u00b0S and longitude 117.9\u00b0E which put it about 290 miles (465 km) north of Port Hedland, Australia.\u00a0 Claudia was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[948,1910,979,328,1909,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144"}],"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=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}