Tropical Storm Meari formed east of the Philippines on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Meari was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 136.4\u00b0E which put it about 1045 miles (1685 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Meari was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 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
A distinct center of circulation began to consolidate inside a broad area of low pressure located between Guam and the Philippines on Wednesday.\u00a0 The center acquired enough characteristics of a tropical cyclone to be classified as Tropical Storm Meari by the Japan Meteorological Agency.\u00a0 The low level center is still consolidating, but multiple spiral rainbands are forming.\u00a0 More thunderstorms are forming south and west of the center and there are fewer storms north and east of center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Meari formed in an environment that is favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 Meari is organizing beneath an upper level ridge which is an area of weaker winds.\u00a0 There is little vertical wind shear and the upper level ridge is providing some upper level divergence.\u00a0 Meari is likely to strengthen slowly while the core of the circulation organizes, but it could intensify more quickly once a well formed center exists.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Meari could eventually strengthen into a typhoon.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge located north of Meari is slowly steering the tropical storm toward the west.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Meari will move gradually closer to the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Meari formed east of the Philippines on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Meari was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 136.4\u00b0E which put it about 1045 miles (1685 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Meari was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 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":[563,96,562,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344"}],"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=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}