Tropical Storm Linfa is moving steadily toward the coast of northern Luzon.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Linfa was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 123.9\u00b0E which put it about 230 miles (370 km) east-northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Linfa was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Linfa has a small circulation, but it appears to be intensifying quickly.\u00a0 A circular area of strong thunderstorms has developed around the center of circulation and it is producing strong upper level outflow.\u00a0 Linfa is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge northwest of the tropical storm is producing some vertical wind shear, but the shear does not seem to be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Linfa has about 18 hours to intensify before it reaches the coast of Luzon and it could attain typhoon intensity before it gets there.\u00a0 Mountains in northern Luzon will disrupt the lowers levels of the circulation and Linfa will weaken after if makes landfall.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Linfa toward the northwest and that steering pattern is expected to continue until the tropical storm makes landfall in northern Luzon.\u00a0\u00a0 Linfa will reach the western end of the subtropical ridge while it is over Luzon and if the circulation remains intact vertically, it will turn toward the north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Linfa will make landfall in northern Luzon in about 18 hours.\u00a0 It is expected to eventually turn north toward Taiwan and the southern islands of Japan.\u00a0 Linfa cold bring strong winds and locally heavy rainfall for parts of northern Luzon.\u00a0 Heavy rainfall could contribute to flooding and mudslides in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Linfa is moving steadily toward the coast of northern Luzon.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Linfa was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 123.9\u00b0E which put it about 230 miles (370 km) east-northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Linfa was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\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":[44,64,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"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=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}