Tropical Cyclone Herold brought wind and rain to Rodrigues on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Herold was located at latitude 21.4\u00b0S and longitude 64.1\u00b0E which put it about 125 miles (200 km) south-southeast of Port Mathurin, Mauritius.\u00a0 Herold was moving toward the southeast at 21 m.p.h. (34 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 978 mb.<\/p>\n
The core of Tropical Cyclone Herold passed west of Rodrigues on Tuesday, but it came close enough to that island to bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 A weather station at the Plaine Corail airport on Rodrigues reported a wind gust of 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).<\/p>\n
Although Tropical Cyclone Herold began to weaken on Tuesday.\u00a0 It remained strong enough to generate wind gusts to hurricane\/typhoon force over parts of Rodrigues.\u00a0 Microwave satellite imagery indicated the there was still an eye at the center of Herold, although the eye was not evident on conventional infrared images.\u00a0 The eye was surround by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 50 miles (80 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 150 miles (240 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Herold will continue to weaken during the next several days.\u00a0 An upper level trough near Madagascar and an upper level ridge over the South Indian Ocean will interact to produce strong northwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of Herold.\u00a0 Those winds will cause strong vertical wind shear and they will cause the tropical cyclone to weaken.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough and ridge will steer Tropical Cyclone Herold toward the southeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Herold will move quickly away from Rodrigues.\u00a0 Weather conditions on that island will gradually improve as Tropical Cyclone Herold moves farther away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Herold brought wind and rain to Rodrigues on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Herold was located at latitude 21.4\u00b0S and longitude 64.1\u00b0E which put it about 125 miles (200 km) south-southeast of Port Mathurin, Mauritius.\u00a0 Herold was moving toward the southeast at 21 m.p.h. (34 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":[1470,1966,84,85,74,1976,1925,1439,1471,1965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353"}],"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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9354,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}