{"id":18415,"date":"2010-05-21T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tropical-cyclone-1b-northern-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T08:09:38","slug":"tropical-cyclone-1b-northern-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/tropical-cyclone-1b-northern-indian-ocean.php","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone 1B (Northern Indian Ocean)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Tropical Storm 1B Form in Bay of Bengal<\/b>

The first tropical storm of the Northern Indian Ocean<\/span> cyclone season has formed and NASA's Aqua satellite<\/span> captured its birth. Tropical Storm 1B formed in the early morning hours as the convection around the low level circulation center increased since May 17.<\/p>

NASA<\/span>'s Aqua satellite captured a visible image of 1B from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <\/span>(MODIS) at 7:25 UTC (12:25 p.m. Asia\/Kolkata time) today, May 18, where if formed off of India's east coast in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>

At 09:00 UTC (5 a.m. EDT or 2 p.m. Asia\/Kolkata local time) on May 18, Tropical Storm 1B had maximum sustained winds near 40 knots (46 mph). It was located about 285 nautical miles east-southeast of Chennai, India near 12.4 North and 84.5 East in the Bay of Bengal. It is moving west-northwest near 13 knots (15 mph) and is forecast to continue in that direction, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the organization the forecasts tropical cyclones in that region.<\/p>

Tropical Storm 1B is expected to intensify in the next two days as it moves closer to Chennai. It is then forecast to make landfall south of Visakhapatham.<\/p><\/span><\/div>

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