A center of circulation developed in an area of thunderstorms on the opposite side of the Equator from Tropical Cyclone Raquel and it was designated as Tropical Storm Chan-hom on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 11.0\u00b0N and longitude 156.5\u00b0E which put it about 250 miles (400 km) north-northeast of Oroluk atoll and about 800 miles (1290 km) east of Guam.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the west at 22 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (70 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Chan-hom formed over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are around 29\u00b0C to 30\u00b0C and there is plenty of energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 An upper level ridge located north of the tropical storm is generating easterly winds over the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The easterly winds are generating moderate amounts of vertical wind shear and many of the stronger thunderstorms are occurring in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Those thunderstorms are producing strong rising motion and upper level divergence is well developed on the western side of Chan-hom.\u00a0 However the upper level easterly winds are interfering with upper level divergence on the eastern side of the tropical storm.\u00a0 As a result, a modest rate of intensification is expected in the short term.\u00a0 If the upper level winds were to lessen, then a more rapid rate of intensification would be possible.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge is expected to steer Chan-hom toward the west during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Chan-hom could approach Guam in about three days.\u00a0 It could be a typhoon by that time.\u00a0 However, there is some divergence in the track guidance from numerical models at the end of this week and that is producing uncertainty about the future track of Chan during that time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation developed in an area of thunderstorms on the opposite side of the Equator from Tropical Cyclone Raquel and it was designated as Tropical Storm Chan-hom on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 11.0\u00b0N and longitude 156.5\u00b0E which put it about […]<\/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":[45,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}