Tropical Cyclone Uesi developed rapidly over the Coral Sea on Sunday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Uesi was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0S and longitude 163.6\u00b0E which put it about 230 miles (370 km) north of New Caledonia. Ueusi was moving toward the south at 7 m.p.h, (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 982 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Uesi organized quickly on Sunday.\u00a0 The inner end of a band of showers and thunderstorms wrapped around the western side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed in other rainbands.\u00a0 The strongest bands were in the eastern and southern parts of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Uesi will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 Uesi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western end of an upper level ridge over the South Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will produce northerly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will mot be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Uesi is likely to strengthen into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon during the next 12 to 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Uesi will move around the western end of a high pressure system over the South Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Uesi toward the south during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Cyclone Uesi could approach the northern end of New Caledonia in about 48 hours.\u00a0 Uesi will likely be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon when it nears New Caledonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Uesi developed rapidly over the Coral Sea on Sunday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Uesi was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0S and longitude 163.6\u00b0E which put it about 230 miles (370 km) north of New Caledonia. Ueusi was moving toward the south at 7 m.p.h, (11 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":[76,2],"tags":[1444,79,88,653,1941,1942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226"}],"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=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}