{"id":3088,"date":"2022-02-04T11:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:55:59","slug":"intense-tropical-cyclone-batsirai-headed-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/04\/intense-tropical-cyclone-batsirai-headed-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai headed for Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3089\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/08S_041200sair.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3089\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3089\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/08S_041200sair-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/08S_041200sair-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/08S_041200sair-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/08S_041200sair-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/08S_041200sair.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tropical Cyclone Batsirai Satellite Image via JTWC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropical Cyclone Batsirai over the South Indian Ocean is moving west\u00a0 at 4 knots with max winds estimated to 115 knots and significant wave heights to 16 meters (52 feet). Batsirai is an intense, highly symmetrical tropical cyclone with a 30 nm wide eye. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Batsirai is moving through a favorable environment with warm SST and low wind shear and is forecast to peak at about 120 knots prior to landfall along the east coast of Madagascar about 1500 UTV\/5th.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3090\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sh0822.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3090\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3090\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sh0822-300x199.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sh0822-300x199.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sh0822-768x508.gif 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sh0822-1024x678.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tropical Cyclone Batsirai Forecast Track via JTWC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Batsirai will weaken rapidly as it crosses Madagascar, exiting over the Mozambique Channel as a tropical storm but only a modest re-intensification is expected as it turns southward over colder water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Batsirai over the South Indian Ocean is moving west-northwest at 4 knots with max winds estimated to 115 knots with significant wave heights to 16 meters (52 feet). Batsirai is an intense, highly symmetrical tropical cyclone with a 30 nm wide eye. <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/04\/intense-tropical-cyclone-batsirai-headed-madagascar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[58,30,6,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}