Tropical Storm In-Fa intensified quickly on Tuesday and it caused watches and warnings to be issued for the area around Chuuk.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm In-Fa was located at latitude 6.0\u00b0N and longitude 156.3\u00b0E which put it about 385 miles (620 km) east-southeast of Fananu and about 985 miles (1590 km) east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the west-northwest 18 m.p.h. (29 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 983 mb.\u00a0 A Typhoon Watch has been issued for Fananu.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm In-Fa organized rapidly on Tuesday.\u00a0 A tight core formed in the center of circulation and an eyelike feature appeared on satellite images.\u00a0 A small ring of thunderstorms formed around the eye and a large primary rainband wrapped around the circulation.\u00a0 The circulation became more symmetrical and upper level outflow began to create divergence in most directions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm In-Fa remains in an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and the vertical wind shear is modest.\u00a0 In-Fa is likely to continue to intensify and now that an inner core has developed, it could intensify rapidly.\u00a0 In-Fa could become a typhoon on Wednesday and it could become the equivalent of a major hurricane later this week.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of In-Fa is steering the tropical storm toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for the rest of the week.\u00a0 On its anticipated track In-Fa will approach Fananu in about 24 hours and it could be a typhoon at that time.\u00a0 In-Fa could be approaching Guam in about three days as a typhoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm In-Fa intensified quickly on Tuesday and it caused watches and warnings to be issued for the area around Chuuk.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm In-Fa was located at latitude 6.0\u00b0N and longitude 156.3\u00b0E which put it about 385 miles (620 km) east-southeast of Fananu and about 985 […]<\/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":[277,102,280,45,136,101,105,106,279,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"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=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}