Tropical Storm Linfa crossed northern Luzon and turned for Taiwan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Linfa was located at latitude 19.0\u00b0N and longitude 119.4\u00b0E which put it about 230 miles (370 km) south-southwest of Hengchun, Taiwan.\u00a0 Linfa was moving toward the north-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 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
The circulation of Tropical Storm Linfa was relatively intact after it crossed northern Luzon and it moved back over water.\u00a0 However, an upper level ridge over eastern Asia generated northeasterly winds that were strong enough to blow the top off of the circulation.\u00a0 Strong upper level wind shear is making it difficult for new thunderstorms to form near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Although Linfa will be moving over warm water, the wind shear will limit intensification.<\/p>\n
Linfa has reached the western end of the subtropical ridge that has been steering the tropical storm.\u00a0 It has turned toward the north and that general movement is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Linfa could approach southern Taiwan in about two days.\u00a0 It could bring locally heavy rain to parts of Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Linfa crossed northern Luzon and turned for Taiwan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Linfa was located at latitude 19.0\u00b0N and longitude 119.4\u00b0E which put it about 230 miles (370 km) south-southwest of Hengchun, Taiwan.\u00a0 Linfa was moving toward the north-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 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":[64,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"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=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}