Tropical Storm Chan-hom continued to move farther west of the Mariana Islands on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 142.0\u00b0E which put it about 1170 miles (1890 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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 982 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Chan-hom became a little better organized on Sunday.\u00a0 A primary band of thunderstorms wrapped around the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 There also appears to be some drier air wrapping into the circulation as well.\u00a0 The upper level winds have decreased and some upper level divergence appears to be developing.\u00a0 Chan-hom is over water there the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 With the exception of the drier air the environment is favorable for intensification Chan-hom is expected to become a typhoon.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Chan-hom in a generally northwesterly direction and that steering pattern is expected to continue for the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Chan-hom could approach Okinawa in three or four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Chan-hom continued to move farther west of the Mariana Islands on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Chan-hom was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 142.0\u00b0E which put it about 1170 miles (1890 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 […]<\/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":[44,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}