There has been a development with the new tropical cyclone Bart. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument in NASA's Aqua satellite has observed Bart.
On Feb. 21 at 0045 UTC or Feb. 20 at 7:45 p.m. New York time, Bart, the new tropical cyclone has been captured by MODIS. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer has showed images of the cyclone Bart in the Pacific Ocean. NASA has reported that is now longer. It is because of ht vertical wind shear, NASA added.
Northwesterly wind shear has resulted in massive clouds and loud thunderstorms pushed to the southeast. On Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC) Bart's maximum sustained winds were near 46 mph (40 knots/74 kph), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JTWC stated. During the same time, Bart is in the center. It is near 22.4 degrees south latitude and 161.3 degrees west longitude, about 762 nautical miles west-southwest of Papeete, Tahiti.
NASA scientists have also seen tropical cyclone Bart had moved to the open waters of Pacific Ocean, South to be exact. It was moving to the east-southeast at a speedy 25.3 mph (22 knots/40.7 kph), according to Phys. Tropical cyclone Bart is now located along the northeast edge of a subterranean subtropical shortwave trough with lengthened area of low pressure.
"Environmental conditions are forecast to degrade over the next 24 to 36 hours with increasing vertical wind shear and cooler sea surface temperatures, which will eventually lead to extra-tropical transition [in a day and a half]," noted JTWC. It is the 7th named tropical system of the 2016/17 Southern hemisphere tropical cyclone season.
It is near Northern Samoa and just southwest of Cook Islands. Tropical cyclone Bart's maximum significant wave height at 12:00 UTC today was 4.2 m or 14 feet. NASA's Aqua satellite is still monitoring the said tropical cyclone. They are also alert as to how it will develop.
