A center of circulation formed in an area of thunderstorms southeast of Pohnpei and the system was designated Tropical Depression 27W (TD 27W).\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Depression 27W was located at latitude 4.7\u00b0N and longitude 162.3\u00b0E which put it about 360 miles (585 km) east-southeast of Pohnpei.\u00a0 TD 27W was moving to the west at 17 m.p.h. (27 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1001 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of TD 27W is still organizing.\u00a0 A clearly defined low level center of circulation formed near the northern edge of an area of thunderstorms.\u00a0 However, most of the stronger thunderstorms are southwest of the center.\u00a0 Those storms are generating upper level divergence that is expanding south and west of the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 27W is in an environment that favors further intensification.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge north of TD 27W is producing light easterly winds over the top of the depression.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is modest, and it should only slow the rate of intensification.\u00a0 Intensification could be slow initially as a stronger inner core forms around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Once the core of the circulation consolidates, then intensification could occur more quickly.\u00a0 TD 27W could become a tropical storm within 24 to 36 hours and it could be a typhoon in three or four days.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of TD 27W is steering the depression toward the west.\u00a0 A gradual turn toward the west-northwest is expected and that general motion is expected to continue for much of the week.\u00a0 On its anticipated track TD 27W could be near Pohnpei in about 24 hours and it could bring tropical storm force winds and heavy rain.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone could be approaching Guam by the end of the week and it could be a typhoon by that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation formed in an area of thunderstorms southeast of Pohnpei and the system was designated Tropical Depression 27W (TD 27W).\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Depression 27W was located at latitude 4.7\u00b0N and longitude 162.3\u00b0E which put it about 360 miles (585 km) east-southeast of Pohnpei.\u00a0 TD […]<\/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":[277,102,45,125,101,105,106,276,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}