{"id":25073,"date":"2026-08-28T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25073"},"modified":"2026-08-28T03:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:20:14","slug":"tropical-storm-saudel-brings-wind-and-rain-to-eastern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25073","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Saudel Brings Wind and Rain to Eastern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Saudel brought wind and rain to eastern China on Thursday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Saudel was located at latitude 28.0\u00b0N and longitude 120.3\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) west of Wenzhou, China.\u00a0 Saudel was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 982 mb.<\/p>\n<p>The center of Typhoon Saudel made landfall on the east coast of China east of Wenzhou on Thursday evening.\u00a0 Saudel weakened to a tropical storm after it made landfall on the coast.<\/p>\n<p>The circulation around Tropical Storm Saudel was still well organized.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Saudel&#8217;s circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Winds to tropical storm force extended out 155 miles (250 km) from the center of Tropical Storm Saudel.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Saudel will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean and eastern China.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Saudel toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Saudel will move inland over Zhejiang.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Saudel will bring strong winds and heavy rain to Zhejang while it moves farther inland.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Saudel will also bring gusty winds locally heavy rain to southern parts of Anhui and northern sections of Jiangxi.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Etau formed north of Wake Island.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Etau was located at latitude 24.5\u00b0N and longitude 167.3\u00b0E which put the center about 335 miles (540 km) north of Wake Island. \u00a0 Etau was moving toward the north-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 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 994 mb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Saudel brought wind and rain to eastern China on Thursday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Saudel was located at latitude 28.0\u00b0N and longitude 120.3\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) west of Wenzhou, China.\u00a0 Saudel was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. [&hellip;]<\/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":[793,191,4189,43,2338,2131,2288,165,2287,80,1146,794,192,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073"}],"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=25073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25074,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions\/25074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}