Tropical Storm Krathon formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Taiwan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Krathon was located at latitude 18.6\u00b0N and longitude 125.1\u00b0E which put the center about 480 miles (775 km) south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Krathon was moving toward the west at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 995 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Taiwan strengthened on Saturday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Krathon.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Krathon was organizing quickly on Saturday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the eastern and northern sides of the center of Krathon’s circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Krathon.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Krathon’s circulation generated upper level divergence that pumped mas away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Krathon was increasing size as Krathon strengthened.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 125 miles (200 km) from the center of Krathon’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Krathon will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Krathon will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the axis of an upper level ridge south of Japan.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the axis of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear,\u00a0 Tropical Storm Krathon will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Krathon could strengthen to a typhoon on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Krathon will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system south of Japan.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Krathon toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Krathon will move closer to Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression Jebi was moving closer to Iwo To.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Jebi was located at latitude 21.7\u00b0N and longitude 142.3\u00b0E which put the center about 275 miles (445 km) south-southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Jebi was moving toward the north-northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 1000 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Krathon formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Taiwan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Krathon was located at latitude 18.6\u00b0N and longitude 125.1\u00b0E which put the center about 480 miles (775 km) south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Krathon was moving toward the west at […]<\/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":[176,178,107,44,1196,3763,1081,42,3764,3762,1145,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251"}],"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=21251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21252,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions\/21252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}