Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa moved slowly westward toward Oman on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa was located at latitude 20.6\u00b0N and longitude 61.1\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles (260 km) east of Masirah Island, Oman.\u00a0 Ashobaa was moving toward the west at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.<\/p>\n
Most of the strong thunderstorms are occurring south and west of the center Ashobaa.\u00a0 An upper level ridge located over southern Asia is generating easterly winds over the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those easterly winds are producing moderate amounts of vertical wind shear and account for the asymmetric distribution of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Ashobaa is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and there is enough energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 However, the vertical shear is strong enough to inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Once Ashobaa moves closer to the coast of Oman, the circulation will begin to pull in drier air from land.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone could start to weaken before the center moves on land.<\/p>\n
The ridge over southern Asia strengthened on Wednesday and it pushed Ashobaa a little south of due west.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to remain in place and to continue steering the tropical cyclone westward for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Ashobaa would make landfall in Oman in about 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa moved slowly westward toward Oman on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa was located at latitude 20.6\u00b0N and longitude 61.1\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles (260 km) east of Masirah Island, Oman.\u00a0 Ashobaa was moving toward the west at 4 m.p.h. (6 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":[48,2],"tags":[57,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}