Spiral banding and other organizational features have increased around Tropical Depression 21W and it has intensified into Tropical Storm Sinlaku.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Sinlaku was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 117.3\u00b0E which put it about 360 miles southwest of Manila, Philippines and about 650 miles east-southeast of Quy Nohn, Vietnam.\u00a0 Sinlaku was moving toward the west-northwest at 23 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 50 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Sinlaku is being steered to the west-northwest by a subtropical ridge located to its north and that steering pattern is expected to continue for the next two or three days.\u00a0 Sinlaku could be near the coast of Vietnam in about 42 hours.\u00a0 The spirals bands of thunderstorms are increasing in organization and the upper level outflow is increasing.\u00a0 Sinlaku will remain over warm Sea Surface Temperatures as it moves toward Vietnam.\u00a0 The environmental factors suggest further intensification is likely, although the rapid forward motion of Sinlaku could limit the rate of intensification.\u00a0 If Sinlaku were to move more slowly, then a faster rate of intensification night be possible.<\/p>\n
Sinlaku is likely to bring some gusty winds to the coast of central Vietnam and it could produce locally heavy rainfall over parts of Southeast Asia as it moves inland in two or three days.<\/p>\n
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Spiral banding and other organizational features have increased around Tropical Depression 21W and it has intensified into Tropical Storm Sinlaku.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Sinlaku was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 117.3\u00b0E which put it about 360 miles southwest of Manila, Philippines and about 650 miles east-southeast […]<\/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":[65,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}