Tropical Cyclone Nisarga made landfall south of Mumbai, India on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nisarga was located at latitude 18.3\u00b0N and longitude 73.3\u00b0E which put it about 80 miles (130 km) south of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 Nisarga was moving toward the northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 973 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nisarga rapidly intensified into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Tuesday night before it made landfall on the west coast of India.\u00a0 An eye with a diameter of 40 miles (65 km) formed at the center of Nisarga.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Nisarga at the time of landfall.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nisarga brought winds to hurricane\/typhoon force to a portion of the west coast of India south of Mumbai.\u00a0 Those winds would have pushed water toward the coast.\u00a0 The would have generated a storms surge of 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) near where the center of Nisarga made landfall.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Nisarga will drop heavy rain over parts of Maharashtra.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Nisarga made landfall south of Mumbai, India on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nisarga was located at latitude 18.3\u00b0N and longitude 73.3\u00b0E which put it about 80 miles (130 km) south of Mumbai, India.\u00a0 Nisarga was moving toward the northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 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":[1009,56,689,2043,903,2042,2041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626"}],"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=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9627,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions\/9627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}