{"id":318,"date":"2015-01-16T03:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-01-16T03:20:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:20:27","slug":"tropical-storm-mekkhala-intensifies-slightly-as-it-moves-toward-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Mekkhala Intensifies Slightly As It Moves Toward the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Mekkhala was located at 11.6\u00b0N and longitude 131.1\u00b0E which put it about 540 miles east of Tacloban and about 710 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Mekkhala was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n<p>East-southeasterly winds in the upper levels continue to cause moderate wind shear over the top of Mekkhala.\u00a0 It has a well developed low level circulation, but most of the thunderstorm formation is still in the western half of the storm.\u00a0 Although Mekkhala is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures, the wind shear is inhibiting intensification.\u00a0 Further intensification is possible, but it will likely be limited.<\/p>\n<p>A subtropical ridge north of Mekkhala is extending westward and the ridge should continue to steer it westward.\u00a0 The projected path would bring Mekkhala near the central Philippines in 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Potential risks include locally heavy rain, flooding and mudslides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Mekkhala was located at 11.6\u00b0N and longitude 131.1\u00b0E which put it about 540 miles east of Tacloban and about 710 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Mekkhala was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}