Tropical Storm Linfa formed east of Vietnam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Linfa was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) east-southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Linfa was moving toward the west at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms developed near the center of a low pressure system over the South China Sea east of Vietnam and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Linfa on Saturday.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Linfa exhbited better organization.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Linfa.\u00a0 Storms near the center generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away to the west of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Linfa.<\/p>\n
A high pressure system over eastern Asia will steer Tropical Storm Linfa quickly toward the west during the next two days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Linfa will make landfall on the coast of Vietnam south of Da Nang in about 8 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Linfa will move through an environment favorable for intensification until it makes landfall.\u00a0 Linfa will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of Tropical Storm Linfa.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The shear will limit the rate of intensification but Linfa will strengthen before it makes landfall.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Linfa will make landfall on the coast of Vietnam south of Da Nang in a few hours.\u00a0 Linfa will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to parts of central Vietnam, southern Laos, northern Cambodia and northeastern Thailand.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Chan-hom was passing south of Japan.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 32.0\u00b0N and longitude 139.8\u00b0E which put it about 215 miles (345 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the east at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Linfa formed east of Vietnam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Linfa was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) east-southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Linfa was moving toward the west at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[514,793,608,2260,1649,44,173,2275,174,474,2259,2274,63,515,794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596"}],"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=10596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}