Although Tropical Storm Nepartak was weakened significantly during its passage over the mountains on Taiwan, it is still producing heavy rain over portions of eastern China and Taiwan.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Nepartak was located at latitude 24.0\u00b0N and longitude 119.0\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Xiamen, China.\u00a0 Nepartak was moving toward the northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (115 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (140 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 978 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nepartak brought damaging winds and heavy rainfall to Taiwan when the core of the tropical cyclone passed over that area.\u00a0 The mountains on Taiwan significantly disrupted the lower levels of the circulation.\u00a0 There are some indications on satellite imagery that the upper portion of the circulation is located northwest of the surface center.\u00a0 When a typhoon crosses Taiwan, the mountains can cause the original center of circulation to weaken and a new center can sometimes form over the water on the downstream side of the island.<\/p>\n
In any case, crossing over Taiwan caused Nepartak to weaken to a tropical storm and the circulation no longer exhibits a tight inner core.\u00a0 However, there are still rainbands that are producing heavy rain and wind speeds to almost typhoon force.\u00a0\u00a0 Because Nepartak no longer has a tight inner core, it is unlikely to intensify significantly before the centers moves into eastern China.<\/p>\n
A ridge northeast of Nepartak is steering the tropical storm toward the northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 After that time Nepartak is expected to turn toward the north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Nepartak will make landfall in China between Xiamen and Fuqing on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nepartak could produce locally heavy rainfall over portions of eastern China.\u00a0 Some of that region has already received a lot of rain from other weather systems.\u00a0 So, the potential for additional flooding is high in some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although Tropical Storm Nepartak was weakened significantly during its passage over the mountains on Taiwan, it is still producing heavy rain over portions of eastern China and Taiwan.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Nepartak was located at latitude 24.0\u00b0N and longitude 119.0\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (160 […]<\/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":[406,43,44,413,130,42,405,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"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=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}