Tropical Storm Megi formed west of the Marianas on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Megi was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 137.1\u00b0E which put it about 1160 miles (1870 km) east-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Megi was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (70 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Megi is still organizing.\u00a0 A distinct center of circulation is still consolidating.\u00a0 There are more thunderstorms south and east of the center of circulation, but bands of thunderstorms are beginning to develop in other quadrants of the storm.\u00a0 The thunderstorms closer to the center are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.\u00a0 Outflow channels could be developing to the northwest and southeast of Tropical Storm Megi.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Megi is moving into 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 winds are not very strong and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Megi is likely to continue to intensify while the circulation becomes better organized.\u00a0 Once a well formed core develops at the center of Megi, it could intensify more rapidly.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Megi is likely to become a typhoon during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Megi is moving along the southwestern side of a subtropical ridge, which is steering it toward the west.\u00a0 A westerly or west-northwesterly motion is expected to continue for the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Megi could approach Taiwan in about three days.\u00a0 Megi is likely to be a typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Megi formed west of the Marianas on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Megi was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 137.1\u00b0E which put it about 1160 miles (1870 km) east-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Megi was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[178,43,44,103,46,194,42,96,530,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080"}],"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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}