A new tropical depression has formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression 22W (TD 22W) was located at latitude 4.8\u00b0N and longitude 152.8\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles south-southeast of Chuuk and about 800 miles southeast of Guam.\u00a0 TD 22W was moving toward the west-northwest at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 45 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Thunderstorms were increasing near the center of TD 22W and it was showing increased signs of organization.\u00a0 There was an area of thunderstorms at the core of the circulation and spiral bands of convection were developing outside the core.\u00a0 TD 22W is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) and the upper level winds are not too strong.\u00a0 The environment is favorable for intensification and upper level divergence is occurring over the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 TD 22W is likely to intensify into a tropical storm on Monday.\u00a0 Further intensification is likely over the next few days as the storm remains over warm SSTs and a period of more rapid intensification is possible.<\/p>\n
TD 22W is being steered to the west-northwest by a subtropical ridge that is located to the north of it.\u00a0 The subtropical ridge is likely to continue to steer TD 22W in that same general direction during the next two or three days.\u00a0 The storm could be a typhoon by the time it nears Yap.<\/p>\n
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A new tropical depression has formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression 22W (TD 22W) was located at latitude 4.8\u00b0N and longitude 152.8\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles south-southeast of Chuuk and about 800 miles southeast of Guam.\u00a0 TD 22W was moving toward […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}