Tropical Storm Bebinca formed near Guam on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Bebinca located at latitude 13.6\u00b0N and longitude 144.0\u00b0E which put the center about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Bebinca was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for the coastal waters of Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A low pressure system near Guam strengthened on Tuesday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Bebinca.\u00a0 Bebinca brought wind and rain to the Marianas.\u00a0 A weather station at Guam International Airport (PGUM) reported a sustained wind speed of 28 m.p.h. (45 km\/h) and a wind gust of 45 m.p.h. (73 km\/h).<\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Storm Bebinca was exhibiting more organization on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of Bebinca’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms also formed in bands in the eastern side of Tropical Storm Bebinca.\u00a0 Bands in the western side of Bebinca’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Bebinca generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The distribution of winds speeds in Tropical Storm Bebinca was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) in the northeastern quadrant of Bebinca’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out 25 miles (40 km) in the other parts of Tropical Storm Bebinca.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bebinca will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bebinca will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0\u00a0 It will move under the western part of an upper level ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce southerly winds that will blow toward the top of Bebinca’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Bebinca will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Bebinca is likely to strengthen to a typhoon later this week.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bebinca will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Bebinca toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Bebinca will move west of the Marianas.\u00a0 Bebinca could approach the Ryukyu Islands by the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Bebinca formed near Guam on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Bebinca located at latitude 13.6\u00b0N and longitude 144.0\u00b0E which put the center about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Bebinca was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed […]<\/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":[771,1152,45,44,136,104,194,105,106,1151,772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075"}],"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=21075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21076,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075\/revisions\/21076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}