Tropical Storm Podul churned westward over the Western North Pacific Ocean on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Podul was located at latitude 21.2\u00b0N and longitude 132.7\u00b0E which put the center about 510 miles (820 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Podul was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Tropical Storm Podul did not change much on Sunday.\u00a0 An upper level ridge over China and Japan continue to produce northeasterly winds that blew toward the top of Podul\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds caused moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear was caused the distribution of thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Podul to be asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the southern half of Podul\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the northern side of Tropical Storm Podul consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Podul was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 75 miles (120 km) from the center of Podul\u2019s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Podul will move through an environment that will be somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Podul will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level ridge over China and Japan will continue to cause vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will continue to\u00a0 inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Podul could intensify slowly during the next 24 hours if the wind shear does not get any stronger.\u00a0 Podul could strengthen to a typhoon on Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Podul will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is south of Japan. The high pressure system will steer Podul toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Podul will approach the southern Ryukyu Islands in 36 hours.\u00a0 Podul could approach Taiwan in 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Podul churned westward over the Western North Pacific Ocean on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Podul was located at latitude 21.2\u00b0N and longitude 132.7\u00b0E which put the center about 510 miles (820 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Podul was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. (22 […]<\/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":[514,44,46,1614,194,42,1613,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22836"}],"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=22836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22837,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22836\/revisions\/22837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}