Tropical Cyclone Diane formed north of La Reunion on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Diane was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0S and longitude 56.2\u00b0E which put it about 110 miles (175 km) north-northeast of St. Denis, La Reunion.\u00a0 Diane was moving toward the east-southeast at 18 m.p.h. (30 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
A distinct low level center of circulation developed in an area of low pressure east of Madagascar on Friday and the system was designated as Tropical Cyclone Diane.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms around Tropical Cyclone Diane was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms were occurring northwest of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were developing east of the center of Diane.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were beginning to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the southeast of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Diane will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Diane will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Madagascar and an upper level ridge east of Mauritius will interact to produce northwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Diane could intensify slowly during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough and upper level ridge will steer Tropical Cyclone Diane toward the east-southeast during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Diane could bring wind and rain to Mauritius within 12 hours.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Diane formed north of La Reunion on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Diane was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0S and longitude 56.2\u00b0E which put it about 110 miles (175 km) north-northeast of St. Denis, La Reunion.\u00a0 Diane was moving toward the east-southeast at 18 m.p.h. (30 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[639,891,1921,84,85,74,1408,640,892,1922,1920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183"}],"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=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}