Tropical Cyclone 07S (Dikeledi) – Pacific
Monday, January 13, 2025

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By PDC’s Senior Weather
Specialist Glenn James

The Pacific Disaster Center’s (PDC Global) Monday, January 13, 2025, Tropical Cyclone Activity Report…for the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and adjacent Seas

Current Tropical Cyclones:

Tropical Cyclone 07S (Dikeledi) is located approximately 61 NM south-southwest of Nacala, Mozambique

 

Northeast Pacific Ocean: There are no Tropical Cyclones

The last regularly scheduled Tropical Cyclone Activity Report of the 2024 eastern North Pacific Hurricane Season has been issued. Routine issuance of this section of the PDC product will resume on May 15, 2025. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant by the NHC.

 

Central Pacific Ocean: There are no Tropical Cyclones

The 2024 central North Pacific hurricane season has ended. As such, the final routine Tropical Cyclone Activity Report for the 2024 season has been issued. Routine issuance of this section of the PDC product will resume on June 1, 2025. During the off-season, Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued as conditions warrant by the CPHC.

 

Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and adjacent Seas:

South Indian Ocean

Tropical Cyclone 07S (Dikeledi)

According to the JTWC Warning number 9, sustained winds are 70 knots, with gusts to near 85 knots

Animated multi-spectral satellite imagery depicts tropical cyclone 07S rapidly approaching the coast of Mozambique. Low-level cloud banding is visible in the southern periphery of the system due to moderate (10-15 knot) vertical wind shear from the south. Water vapor imagery reveals radial outflow, but the upper-level flow is strongest equatorward and westward of the low-level circulation center.

TC 08S will make landfall in the vicinity of Nacala, Mozambique within the next 12 hours, and remain over land until 24 hours. The topographic influence will cause slight weakening, however, the environment is expected to remain moist and upper-level divergence will improve.

As the system crosses over the ridge axis between 24-48 hours, a poleward outflow channel will develop, enhancing the rate of intensification as the col region to the south propagates eastward.

Vertical wind shear will decrease as the system moves south-southwestward away from land, leading to a peak intensity of 90 knots by 72 hours. Around 96-120 hours, an approaching
upper-level trough will initiate extratropical transition leading to gradual weakening to 70 knots as the system becomes fully extratropical.