Tropical Storm Hagupit maintained its intensity on Tuesday as it moved farther away from the Philippines.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Hagupit was located at latitude 13.3\u00b0N and longitude 116.6\u00b0E which put it about 320 miles west-southwest of Manila, Philippines and about 475 miles east-northeast of Cam Ranh, Vietnam.\u00a0 Hagupit was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. and there gusts to 65 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Thunderstorms continue to develop near the center of circulation and upper level outflow is evident on satellite images.\u00a0 However, Hagupit is likely to move into a more unfavorable environment as it moves westward.\u00a0 Northeasterly winds over the lower levels of the South China Sea contain cooler and drier air.\u00a0 Some of the cooler, drier air may be getting pulled around the western and southern portions of Hagupit’s circulation.\u00a0 If the drier air reaches the center of circulation, then deep convection will diminish and the wind speeds will decrease.\u00a0 Hagupit is also likely to move into an area of more vertical wind shear as it moves westward, which could weaken the storm even faster.<\/p>\n
Hagupit is currently being steered westward by a subtropical ridge located north of it.\u00a0 If Hagupit weakens and the convection becomes shallower, if could be steered toward the southwest or west-southwest by the northeasterly winds in the lower levels.\u00a0 The center of Hagupit could near the coast of Vietnam in about 36 hours.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Hagupit maintained its intensity on Tuesday as it moved farther away from the Philippines.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Hagupit was located at latitude 13.3\u00b0N and longitude 116.6\u00b0E which put it about 320 miles west-southwest of Manila, Philippines and about 475 miles east-northeast of Cam Ranh, Vietnam.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[64,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}