A center of circulation developed within a large area of thunderstorms a few hundred miles south of Japan and the system has been designated Tropical Storm Etau.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Etau was located at latitude 25.3\u00b0N and longitude 138.5\u00b0E which put it about 720 miles (1160 km) south-southeast of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Etau was moving toward the north at 11 m.p.h. (18 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
Although Tropical Storm Etau does have a low level center of circulation, most of the stronger thunderstorms are located north-northwest of the center.\u00a0 Etau is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are warm enough to support intensification.\u00a0 However, a large upper level trough west of Japan is producing southwesterly winds over the top of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The circulation appears to be tilting toward the north with height because\u00a0 of vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tilted tropical cyclones are unable to efficiently convert energy to wind speed and intensify.\u00a0 Etau could intensify a little during the next 24 hours, but then it will run into much stronger upper level winds associated with the upper level trough.\u00a0 Stronger vertical wind shear will cause Etau to begin to weaken before it reaches Japan.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge east of Etau is steering it toward the north-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Etau will approach the coast of Japan near Honshu and Shikoku.\u00a0 Landfall somewhere between Nagoya and Kochi could occur in about 36 hours.\u00a0 Etau’s biggest impact will be to increase rainfall as it moves inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation developed within a large area of thunderstorms a few hundred miles south of Japan and the system has been designated Tropical Storm Etau.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Etau was located at latitude 25.3\u00b0N and longitude 138.5\u00b0E which put it about 720 miles (1160 km) […]<\/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":[166,44,165,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}