Tropical Cyclone Tino formed north of Fiji on Thursday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Tino was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0S and longitude 178.3\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) west-northwest of Labasa, Fiji.\u00a0 Tino was moving toward the southeast at 13 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around a large area of low pressure north of Fiji consolidated around a distinct low level center of circulation on Thursday and the Fiji Meteorological Service designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Tino.\u00a0 The circulation around Tino was still organizing.\u00a0 A primary band of showers and thunderstorms wrapped around the northern, eastern and southern sides of the circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming around Tropical Cyclone Tino.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 400 miles (645 km) north of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 150 miles (240 km) from the center in the southern half of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Tino will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Tino will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move around the southwestern part of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce northwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will generate moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will slow the rate of intensification, but the shear will not be strong enough to keep Tropical Cyclone Tino from getting stronger.\u00a0 Tino could intensify into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Tino will move southwest of a high pressure system over the South Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Tino toward the southeast during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Cyclone Tino could be near the eastern end of Vanua Levu in about 12 hours.\u00a0 Tino could approach Tonga in about 36 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Tino will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to Vanua Levu, Taveuni and many of the smaller islands in eastern Fiji.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain\u00a0 could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Tino formed north of Fiji on Thursday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Tino was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0S and longitude 178.3\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) west-northwest of Labasa, Fiji.\u00a0 Tino was moving toward the southeast at 13 m.p.h. (15 km\/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":[76,2],"tags":[953,89,1916,951,1915,1914,307,1913,1429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160"}],"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=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}