Tropical Storm Kujira moved slowly northward on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday night the center of Tropical Storm Kujira was located at latitude 18.0\u00b0N and longitude 111.2\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles (240 km) south-southeast of Xuwen, China.\u00a0 Kujira was moving toward the north-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (70 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
Although Kujira is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C, vertical wind shear is inhibiting intensification.\u00a0 An upper level ridge over southern Asia is producing northeasterly winds over the top of Kujira.\u00a0 As a result of the vertical shear, most of the stronger thunderstorms are occurring southwest of the center of circulation.\u00a0 As Kujira moves farther north, some of the circulation will move over Hainan Island, which will further limit the potential for intensification.<\/p>\n
Kujira is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering the tropical storm toward the north.\u00a0 The steering pattern is expected to remain in place for the early part of the week.\u00a0 Kujira could be very close to the east coast of Hainan Island in about 12 hours.\u00a0 It will move near or just east of Hainan and Kujira could make landfall in China in 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Although it will bring some wind, the primary risk will be locally heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Kujira moved slowly northward on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday night the center of Tropical Storm Kujira was located at latitude 18.0\u00b0N and longitude 111.2\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles (240 km) south-southeast of Xuwen, China.\u00a0 Kujira was moving toward the north-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[43,71,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"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=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}