Although Tropical Storm Chan-hom briefly reached typhoon intensity on Thursday, strong upper vertical wind shear quickly weakened it back to a tropical storm.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 10.3\u00b0N and longitude 148.0\u00b0E which put it about 325 miles (525 km) southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the west at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 981 mb.\u00a0 A Typhoon Watch has been issued for Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.<\/p>\n
The combination of a upper level ridge and an upper level low produced strong northeasterly winds that blew the middle and upper portions of the circulation of Chan-hom west of the low level circulation.\u00a0 The middle and upper parts of the circulation are about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of the surface center.\u00a0 There are no thunderstorms currently near the surface center.\u00a0 The upper level winds and the vertical wind shear they are producing are likely to continue to weaken Chan-hom on Friday.\u00a0 The upper low is expected to move eastward during the next several days, which would result in a decrease in the wind shear.\u00a0 If the surface circulation is still intact, it will be over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and reintensification would be possible.<\/p>\n
Chan-hom is likely to be steered toward the west on Friday by the winds in the lower levels.\u00a0 If new thunderstorms develop near the center and the height of the circulation increases, then a subtropical ridge in the middle levels could cause the tropical storm to turn toward the northwest.\u00a0 If that turn occurs on Friday, it could put Chan-hom on a track toward Guam, Saipan or Tiniana.\u00a0 If the turn occurs later in the weekend, then Chan-hom could pass to the south of those islands before it turns toward the northwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although Tropical Storm Chan-hom briefly reached typhoon intensity on Thursday, strong upper vertical wind shear quickly weakened it back to a tropical storm.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 10.3\u00b0N and longitude 148.0\u00b0E which put it about 325 miles (525 km) southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Chan-hom […]<\/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":[45,44,105,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"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=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}