A center of circulation organized within an area of thunderstorms south of Guam and the system was designated Tropical Storm Nepartak.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Nepartak was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 141.4\u00b0E which put it about 215 miles (345 km) west-southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Nepartak was moving northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 989 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Nepartak is still organizing.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped around the center and a circular area of thunderstorms formed at the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The area of thunderstorms is generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass and allowing the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend our about 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
An upper level low located north of Nepartak is producing southwesterly winds which area blowing over the top of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Those winds are creating some vertical wind shear, which is slowing the intensification of Nepartak.\u00a0 However, the upper low is also enhancing upper level divergence to the northeast of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Nepartak is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The environment is favorable for intensification and Nepartak could become a hurricane during the next several days.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge located northeast of Nepartak is steering the tropical storm toward the northwest.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Nepartak could be approaching the southernmost islands of Japan in three or four days.\u00a0 It is likely to be a typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation organized within an area of thunderstorms south of Guam and the system was designated Tropical Storm Nepartak.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Nepartak was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 141.4\u00b0E which put it about 215 miles (345 km) west-southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Nepartak was moving […]<\/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":[406,43,45,44,46,130,42,405,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551"}],"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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}