Tropical Storm Koto stalled over the South China Sea east of Vietnam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Koto was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0N and longitude 112.2\u00b0E which put the center about 200 miles (320 km) east of Quy Nhon, Vietnam.\u00a0 Koto was moving toward the north at 3 m.p.h. (5 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 998 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Koto was showing signs of more organization on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of Koto’s circulation.\u00a0 New thunderstorms also formed in some of the bands revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Koto.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Koto were not yet generating much upper level divergence.\u00a0 Mass was still converging in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure was increasing.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds around Tropical Storm Koto continued to be asymmetrical. Winds to tropical storm force extended out 125 miles (200 km) in the western side of Koto\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 65 miles (105 km) in the eastern side of Tropical Storm Koto.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Koto will be in an environment that will be marginally favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Koto will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge that is over the South China Sea.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce southeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Koto\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 In addition, Tropical Storm Koto will be in a region of drier air that is over the South China Sea.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear and drier air will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Koto is likely to maintain its intensity during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Koto could strengthen a little if the new thunderstorms near the center of circulation begin to generate more upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Koto will start to move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over China.\u00a0 The high pressure system will begin to steer Koto toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Koto will start to move toward Vietnam on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Tropical Depression Senyar was weakening south of Vietnam.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression Senyar was located at latitude 6.0\u00b0N and longitude 108.9\u00b0E which put the center about 380 miles (615 km) south-southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.\u00a0 Senyar was moving toward the east-northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Koto stalled over the South China Sea east of Vietnam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Koto was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0N and longitude 112.2\u00b0E which put the center about 200 miles (320 km) east of Quy Nhon, Vietnam.\u00a0 Koto was moving toward the north 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":[924,1373,922,4042,1787,4049,4056,4041,63,925,1374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687"}],"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=23687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23688,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23687\/revisions\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}