A well developed center of circulation formed in an area of thunderstorms near the island of Mindanao and the system has been classified as Tropical Storm Jangmi.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Jangmi was located at latitude 8.8\u00b0N and longitude 126.0\u00b0E, which put it near the city of Prosperidad on Mindanao.\u00a0 The center of Jangmi was located about 200 miles east-southeast of Cebu, about 500 miles east of Puerto Princesa and about 1550 miles east-northeast of Singapore.\u00a0 Jangmi was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 60 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
The atmospheric environment around Jangmi is generally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Easterly winds in the upper levels are causing some wind shear, and there is more convection on the western side of the storm.\u00a0 However, upper level divergence is very well developed on the northern side of the circulation and the circulation is pumping out mass.\u00a0 The center of circulation was organizing rapidly as Jangmi neared Mindanao and there was some evidence of an eye forming.\u00a0 The center has now moved over Mindanao and movement over land will disrupt the circulation in the short term and it should limit the potential for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Sea Surface Temperatures around the southern Philippines are warm and Jangmi could intensify when it moves west of Mindanao.\u00a0 The tropical storm will encounter cooler and drier air after it moves west of the Philippines.<\/p>\n
Jangmi is being steered in a general west to west-northwesterly direction by a subtropical ridge to it north.\u00a0 It is expected to continue in that general direction during the next day or two.\u00a0 When Jangmi moves west of the Philippines it will encounter stronger northeasterly winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 Those winds could push Jangmi more toward the west-southwest later this week.<\/p>\n
The relatively slow movement of Jangmi could create the potential for locally heavy rainfall over portions of the southern Philippines.\u00a0 In places where the heaviest rain falls, it could create the conditions to produce some flooding and landslides.<\/p>\n
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A well developed center of circulation formed in an area of thunderstorms near the island of Mindanao and the system has been classified as Tropical Storm Jangmi.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Jangmi was located at latitude 8.8\u00b0N and longitude 126.0\u00b0E, which put it near the city of Prosperidad […]<\/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":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}