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By PDC’s Senior Weather
Specialist Glenn James

The Pacific Disaster Center’s (PDC Global) Tuesday, January 14, 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 199 NM north of Europa Island
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 11, sustained winds are 60 knots, with gusts to near 75 knots
Animated multi-spectral satellite imagery shows the system has exited back into the Mozambique Channel after dragging along the northeast coast of Mozambique for about 18 hours. The land interaction eroded some of the convection but the low level circulation remains intact and well-defined as an embedded center.
Analysis indicates the environment is once again favorable with warm sea surface temperatures and strong equatorward outflow slightly offset by moderate vertical wind shear.
TC Dikeledi will continue to track southward under the steering str. After 36 hours, it will recurve and accelerate southeastward on the poleward side of the str.
The favorable environment, enhanced later with increasing poleward outflow before the southeastward turn will promote intensification to a peak of 90 knots by 48 hours.
Afterward, increasing vertical wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures will begin to erode the system as it enters the baroclinic zone, reducing it to 45 knots by 96 hours. Concurrently by 72 hours, TC 07S will commence extra-tropical transition and by 96 hours, will transform into a strong gale-force cold core low.