Tropical Cyclone Amphan developed quickly over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Amphan was located at latitude 11.2\u00b0N and longitude 86.3\u00b0E which put it about 430 miles (695 km) west of Port Blair.\u00a0 Amphan was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h (13 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 992 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around a low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal organized quickly on Saturday and the Indian Meteorological Department designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Amphan.\u00a0 Thunderstorms formed around the center of Amphan and recent microwave images suggested that an eye could be forming.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Amphan.\u00a0 The stronger bands were in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of the circulation were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical cyclone in all directions.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Amphan.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Amphan will move through an environment very favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Amphan will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 31\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the axis of an upper level ridge over the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the axis of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Amphan is likely to intensify rapidly during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 Amphan is likely to strengthen into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon within 24 hours and it could become the equivalent of a major hurricane within 36 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Amphan will move around the eastern end of a high pressure system over southeast Asia.\u00a0 The high will steer Amphan toward the north during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Amphan could approach the coast of northeast Indian and Bangladesh in 72 hours.\u00a0 Amphan will likely be the equivalent of a major hurricane when it approaches the coast.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Amphan could generate a catastrophic storm surge along the north coast of the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Amphan developed quickly over the Bay of Bengal on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Amphan was located at latitude 11.2\u00b0N and longitude 86.3\u00b0E which put it about 430 miles (695 km) west of Port Blair.\u00a0 Amphan was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h (13 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":[367,2017,134,56,368,908,2018,2016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507"}],"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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}