Tropical Storm Hagupit passed north of Palau on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Hagupit was located at latitude 10.4\u00b0N and longitude 132.9\u00b0E which put the center about 220 miles (355 km) north-northwest of Koror, Palau.\u00a0 Hagupit was moving toward the northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Hagupit maintained its intensity while it passed north of Palau on Saturday.\u00a0 Even though Tropical Storm Hagupit maintained its maximum wind speed, some of the thunderstorms in Hagupit’s circulation dissipated.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands in the eastern side of Tropical Storm Hagupit.\u00a0 Bands in the western side of Hagupit’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of Hagupit generated less upper level divergence that pumped less mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of less mass caused the surface pressure to increase.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Hagupit will move into an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Hagupit will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern end of an upper level trough that is south of Japan.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce westerly winds that will blow toward the top of Hagupit\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hagupit is likely to weaken to a tropical depression on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Hagupit will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Hagupit toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Hagupit will move farther away from Palau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Hagupit passed north of Palau on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Hagupit was located at latitude 10.4\u00b0N and longitude 132.9\u00b0E which put the center about 220 miles (355 km) north-northwest of Koror, Palau.\u00a0 Hagupit was moving toward the northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[434,2114,2764,95,2113,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381"}],"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=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24382,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions\/24382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}