A center of circulation developed within an area of thunderstorms east of Guam on Tuesday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Chaba.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Chaba was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 147.7\u00b0E which put it about 225 miles (360 km) east of Guam.\u00a0 Chaba was moving toward the west at 17 m.p.h. (27 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 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Chaba is still organizing.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms is asymmetrical.\u00a0 There are more thunderstorms east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Additional thunderstorms are forming west of the center of circulation and some rainbands are developing.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center of Tropical Storm Chaba are generating upper level divergence which is pumping mass out in all directions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Chaba is moving through 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 light and there is not significant vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Chaba is likely to continue to intensify as the circulation gets better organized.\u00a0 Chaba could become a typhoon later this week.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the north of Chaba is steering the tropical storm toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 When Tropical Storm Chaba moves farther west, it will get closer to the western end of the subtropical ridge and Chaba is likely to turn more toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Chaba will move through the Marianas between Guam and Saipan and Tinian on Wednesday.\u00a0 Chaba could be approaching Okinawa in about five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation developed within an area of thunderstorms east of Guam on Tuesday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Chaba.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Chaba was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 147.7\u00b0E which put it about 225 miles (360 km) […]<\/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":[191,534,44,136,46,194,105,106,533,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105"}],"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=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}