A very broad area of low pressure developed enough of the characteristics of a tropical cyclone to be classified as Tropical Storm Omais on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Omais was located at latitude 19.5\u00b0N and longitude 146.2\u00b0E which put it about 380 miles (615 km) north-northeast of Guam.\u00a0 Omais was moving toward the north at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Omais is not well organized.\u00a0 Several clusters of thunderstorms exist about 100 miles (160 km) east and south of the center of the very broad low pressure system.\u00a0 No thunderstorms are occurring in the western half of the low or near the center of the circulation.\u00a0 An inner core does not exist at this time and the strongest winds are occurring in the clusters of thunderstorms well removed from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Omais is in an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level environment is also somewhat favorable for intensification.\u00a0 An upper level low is northwest of Omais and an upper level ridge is east of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Those two features are generating southwesterly winds which are blowing over the top of Tropical Storm Omais.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is inhibiting the organization and intensification of Omais.<\/p>\n
The environment should allow Tropical Storm Omais to intensify, but the large circulation will reduce the rate of intensification.\u00a0 As the wind field contracts and the strongest winds move closer to the center of circulation, the structure of Tropical Storm Omais will move closely resemble a typical tropical cyclone.\u00a0 When an inner core forms at the center of circulation, the rate of intensification may increase.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Omais is near the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 The steering currents are weak, but Omais is likely to move slowly toward the north in the short term.\u00a0 A faster motion is expected over the weekend.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Omais will move near the northernmost Marianas and pass east of Iwo To.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A very broad area of low pressure developed enough of the characteristics of a tropical cyclone to be classified as Tropical Storm Omais on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Omais was located at latitude 19.5\u00b0N and longitude 146.2\u00b0E which put it about 380 miles (615 km) north-northeast of […]<\/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":[453,107,44,136,452,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724"}],"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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}