Tropical Storm Prapiroon brought wind and rain to Hainan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0E which put the center about 65 miles (105 km) south-southwest of Haikou, China.\u00a0 Prapiroon was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 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 992 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Prapiroon intensified on Sunday before the center moved over Hainan.\u00a0 Microwave satellite images indicated that an eye was in the process of forming at the center of Prapiroon’s circulation as the tropical storm made landfall in Hainan.\u00a0 The formative eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon.<\/p>\n
Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon made landfall on the south coast of Hainan near Lingshui.\u00a0 The core of Prapiroon’s circulation moved across the center of Hainan.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon brought heavy rain and strong winds to much of Hainan.\u00a0 Bands in the northern part of Hainan’s circulation were also bringing gusty winds and heavy rain to parts of southern China.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Prapiroon will move around the southern side of a high pressure system over southern China.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Prapiroon toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Prapiroon will move over the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday.\u00a0 The center of Prapiroon’s circulation could approach the southern coast of China in 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Prapiroon will continue to cause strong winds and locally heavy rain in Hainan during the next few hours.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Prapiroon will also bring gusty winds and heavy rain to parts of southern China and northeastern Vietnam.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Gaemi strengthened east of Luzon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Gaemi was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0N and longitude 125.7\u00b0E which put the center about 525 miles (845 km) south of Ishigakijima, Japan.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the north-northwest at 3 m.p.h. (5 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 992 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Prapiroon brought wind and rain to Hainan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0E which put the center about 65 miles (105 km) south-southwest of Haikou, China.\u00a0 Prapiroon was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[697,434,43,1042,3645,2280,1536,1581,44,2714,103,64,1055,42,1041,1054,63,698,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635"}],"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=20635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20636,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635\/revisions\/20636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}