Tropical Storm Yagi dropped heavy rain on parts of northern Luzon on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Yagi was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 121.7\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) south of Tuguegarao, Philippines.\u00a0 Yagi was moving toward the north-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 996 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Storm Yagi moved across northern Luzon on Monday.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Yagi’s circulation dropped heavy rain on parts of northern Luzon.\u00a0 There were reports that heavy rain caused floods and landslides in some locations.\u00a0 There were also reports that the floods and landslides caused an unknown number of deaths.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Yagi weakened gradually as Yagi move across northern Luzon.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring near the center of Yagi’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also occurring in bands revolving around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Yagi generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Tropical Storm Yagi.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Yagi will move around the western part of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Yagi toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Tropical Storm Yagi will move over the South China Sea in 12 hours.\u00a0 A second high pressure system that is over China will steer Yagi toward the west on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Yagi will continue to weaken gradually during the next few hours while it moves across northern Luzon.\u00a0 Yagi will move into an environment that will be favorable for intensification when it moves over the South China Sea.\u00a0 Yagi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge over the South China Sea.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Yagi is likely to intensify after it moves over the South China Sea.\u00a0 Yagi is likely to strengthen to a typhoon by the middle of the week.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Yagi will continue to drop heavy rain over northern Luzon during the next few hours.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause additional floods and landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Yagi dropped heavy rain on parts of northern Luzon on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Yagi was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 121.7\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) south of Tuguegarao, Philippines.\u00a0 Yagi was moving toward the north-northwest at 9 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[476,103,64,1137,2976,478,1138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007"}],"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=21007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21008,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007\/revisions\/21008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}