Tropical Storm In-Fa is near Fananu and it is bringing wind and rain to islands around Chuuk.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm In-Fa was located near latitude 8.6\u00b0N and longitude 152.0\u00b0E which put it about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Fananu and about 620 miles (1000 km) southeast of Guam.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 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
A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for Guam.\u00a0 A Typhoon Warning is in effect for Chuuk lagoon, Losap, Ulul and Fananu.<\/p>\n
In-Fa was briefly a typhoon earlier on Wednesday when it had a small, but well formed eye.\u00a0 However, the core of In-Fa weakened slightly and the eye filled with clouds.\u00a0 A small, but circular, area of thunderstorms has intensified in the core of the tropical storm during the past few hours.\u00a0 There are signs that In-Fa may be strengthening again.\u00a0 The environment surrounding Tropical Storm In-Fa is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and the vertical wind shear is modest.\u00a0 In-Fa could regain typhoon intensity on Thursday and a period of rapid intensification may be possible once the inner core reorganizes.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of In-Fa is steering the tropical storm toward the northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another two or three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of In-Fa will pass near Fananu during the next few hours.\u00a0 In-Fa could be south of Guam in about 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm In-Fa is near Fananu and it is bringing wind and rain to islands around Chuuk.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm In-Fa was located near latitude 8.6\u00b0N and longitude 152.0\u00b0E which put it about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Fananu and about 620 miles (1000 km) southeast […]<\/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":[277,102,280,45,136,279,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944"}],"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=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}