Tropical Storm Pulasan formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of the Ryukyu Islands on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Pulasan was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0N and longitude 137.8\u00b0E which put the center about 450 miles (725 km) south-southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Pulasan was moving toward the west-northwest at 22 m.p.h. (35 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 997 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Pulasan was very large, but there were not many thunderstorms present.\u00a0 Bands revolving around the center of Pulasan’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in a band in the far eastern periphery of Tropical Storm Pulasan.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also occurring in a band in the far southern periphery of Pulasan’s circulation.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Pulasan was very large, but the distribution of wind speeds was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 265 miles (425 km) in the eastern side of Pulasan’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the western side of Tropical Storm Pulasan were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pulasan will move through an environment marginally favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Pulasan will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the eastern side of a large upper level low centered east of Taiwan.\u00a0 The upper level low will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Pulasan’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The strong wind shear will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pulasan could intensify a little during the next 24 hours if the wind shear does not get any stronger.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pulasan will move around the northern side of a large counterclockwise circulation sometimes called a monsoon gyre.\u00a0 The large counterclockwise circulation will steer Pulasan quickly toward the west-northwest during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Pulasan will be near the Ryukyu Islands in 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pulasan will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to the Ryukyu Islands.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, former Typhoon Bebinca weakened to a tropical depression over eastern China.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Bebinca was located at latitude 32.0\u00b0N and longitude 117.0\u00b0E which put the center about 100 miles (160 km) west of Nanjing, China.\u00a0 Bebinca was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Pulasan formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of the Ryukyu Islands on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Pulasan was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0N and longitude 137.8\u00b0E which put the center about 450 miles (725 km) south-southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Pulasan was moving toward the […]<\/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":[771,501,1152,43,107,44,3731,3729,194,3730,3728,772,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141"}],"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=21141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21142,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141\/revisions\/21142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}