Another tropical storm formed over the western North Pacific when a circulation developed west of the International Dateline and was designated as Tropical Storm Nangka (11W).\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Nangka was located at latitude 9.9\u00b0N and longitude 169.2\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles east-northeast of Kwajalein.\u00a0 Nangka was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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 992 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nangka is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and upper level divergence is increasing.\u00a0 However, there is sinking drier air north of the tropical storm and the circulation appears to be pulling some of the drier air into it.\u00a0 As a result many of the stronger thunderstorms are occurring in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 The drier air could inhibit intensification in the short term.\u00a0 The other favorable environmental factors are likely to produce intensification in the longer term once Nangka moves west of the drier air.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Nangka is expected to steer it in a west-northwesterly direction during the next few days.\u00a0 On its expected track Nangka will bring wind and rain to a number of atolls in the Marshall Islands.\u00a0 Nangka could approach the Mariana Islands in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another tropical storm formed over the western North Pacific when a circulation developed west of the International Dateline and was designated as Tropical Storm Nangka (11W).\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Nangka was located at latitude 9.9\u00b0N and longitude 169.2\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles east-northeast of Kwajalein.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[125,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"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=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}