Tropical Cyclone Diane passed south of Rodrigues on Saturday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Diane was located at latitude 22.2\u00b0S and longitude 64.7\u00b0E which put it about 190 miles (305 km) south-southeast of Port Mathurin, Maritius.\u00a0 Diane was moving toward the east-southeast at 23 m.p.h. (37 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Diane brought winds to tropical storm force when it passed south of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Diane also caused winds to tropical storm force over Mauritius earlier on Saturday.\u00a0 A weather station at Le Morne on Mauritius measured a wind speed of 49 m.p.h. (79 km\/h).\u00a0 Several other weather stations on Mauritius including one at the international airport also reported winds to tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Diane will move through an environment only marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Diane will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough east of Madagascar will 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 strengthen a little more during the next 12 hours, but the wind shear will cause weakening in a day or two.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will steer Tropical Cyclone Diane toward the east-southeast during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Diane will move quickly away from Rodrigues<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Esami was churning about 1000 miles (1600 km) east of Tropical Cyclone Diane.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Esami was located at latitude 25.9\u00b0S and longitude 74.8\u00b0E which put it about 1160 miles (1875 km) east-southeast of Port Louis, Mauritius.\u00a0 Esami was moving toward the southeast at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 996 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Diane passed south of Rodrigues on Saturday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Diane was located at latitude 22.2\u00b0S and longitude 64.7\u00b0E which put it about 190 miles (305 km) south-southeast of Port Mathurin, Maritius.\u00a0 Diane was moving toward the east-southeast at 23 m.p.h. (37 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[639,341,1921,1924,1926,74,1408,1925,1439,640,338,1920,1923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188"}],"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=9188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}