Tropical Storm Ampil formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean south of Japan on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Ampil was located at latitude 24.7\u00b0N and longitude 138.1\u00b0E which put the center about 760 miles (1225 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean south of Japan strengthened on Monday afternoon and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Ampil.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of Ampil’s circulation.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped part of the way around the center of Tropical Storm Ampil.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Ampil will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under a small upper level ridge that is in between and upper level low southwest of Japan and an upper level low east of Japan.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak in the small ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Ampil will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Ampil could intensify rapidly at times.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Ampil is likely to strengthen to a typhoon within 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil will move around the western side of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Ampil toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Ampil will move closer to central Honshu.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, former Tropical Storm Maria weakened to a tropical depression over the Sea of Japan, and a subtropical cyclone east of Japan made a transition to Tropical Storm Son-tinh.<\/p>\n
At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Maria was located at latitude 41.0\u00b0N and longitude 138.7\u00b0E which put the center about 100 miles (160 km) west-southwest of Aomori, Japan.\u00a0 Maria was moving toward the north-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.<\/p>\n
At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Son-tinh was located at latitude 3.7\u00b0N and longitude 149.0\u00b0E which put the center about 560 miles (905 km) east of Tokyo, Japan. Son-tinh was moving toward the northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Ampil formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean south of Japan on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Ampil was located at latitude 24.7\u00b0N and longitude 138.1\u00b0E which put the center about 760 miles (1225 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the northeast […]<\/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":[442,453,739,1091,3680,461,44,1064,1087,474,1090,827,1086,443,454,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816"}],"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=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20817,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions\/20817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}