Tropical Storm Noul brought wind and rain to central Vietnam on Thursday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Noul was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0N and longitude 107.2\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) north-northwest of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Noul was moving toward the west at 22 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
The distribution of thunderstorms and rain around Tropical Storm Noul was asymmetrical.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms and the heaviest rain were on the western side of Noul.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Noul was moving under the southern part of a large upper level ridge over Asia and the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge was producing strong easterly winds which were blowing toward the top of Noul.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear and they were also the cause of the asymmetrical distribution of rainfall.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 150 miles (240 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge will steer Tropical Storm Noul quickly toward the west.\u00a0 Noul will across central Vietnam and southern Laos on Friday.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Noul will drop locally heavy rain over parts of central Vietnam, southern Laos and northeastern Thailand.\u00a0 Flash floods could occur in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Noul brought wind and rain to central Vietnam on Thursday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Noul was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0N and longitude 107.2\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) north-northwest of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Noul was moving toward the west at 22 m.p.h. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[477,1649,173,2218,174,2217,63,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10395,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}