The center of Tropical Storm Wipha passed just to the north of northern Luzon on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Wipha was located at latitude 19.6\u00b0N and longitude 122.0\u00b0E which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) north-northeast of Aparri, Philippines.\u00a0 Wipha was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 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 991 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Storm Wipha was passing between northern Luzon and Taiwan on Friday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of Wipha’s circulation on Friday.\u00a0 Numerous bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Wipha.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Wipha generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the south and west of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Wipha was very large.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 205 miles (330 km) from the center of Wipha’s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Wipha will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Wipha will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern side of an upper level ridge that is north of the Philippines.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Wipha’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Wipha will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Wipha could strengthen to a typhoon during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Wipha will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Wipha toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Wipha could approach Hong Kong in 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Wipha will produce gusty winds and locally heavy rain in northern Luzon and southern Taiwan during the rest of today.\u00a0 Heavy rain could produce flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The center of Tropical Storm Wipha passed just to the north of northern Luzon on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Wipha was located at latitude 19.6\u00b0N and longitude 122.0\u00b0E which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) north-northeast of Aparri, Philippines.\u00a0 Wipha was moving toward the northwest […]<\/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":[459,1817,127,103,64,42,1561,1562,460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22651"}],"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=22651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22652,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22651\/revisions\/22652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}