Tropical Storm Chan-hom is passing through the Marianas and bringing gusty winds and rain to Guam and Rota.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0N and longitude 144.8\u00b0E which put it about 10 miles (15 km) west of Rota.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the west-northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 991 mb.<\/p>\n
Despite being over warm water Chan-hom did not intensify on Saturday.\u00a0 The circulation could be pulling in some drier air which is limiting the development of thunderstorms.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the inner core of Chan-hom late on Saturday.\u00a0 There is not much vertical wind shear over the tropical storm.\u00a0 If a well organized inner core forms, then intensification will be possible.\u00a0 Chan-hom could become a typhoon after it moves west of the Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n
The subtropical ridge steering Chan-hom is expected to continue to steer it toward the northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Chan-hom could approach the southern islands of Japan in about four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is passing through the Marianas and bringing gusty winds and rain to Guam and Rota.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0N and longitude 144.8\u00b0E which put it about 10 miles (15 km) west of Rota.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the west-northwest […]<\/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":[45,44,104,105,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"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=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}