The circulation designated as Tropical Storm Meari reorganized west of Guam on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Meari was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 139.0\u00b0E which put it about 415 miles (670 km) west of Guam.\u00a0 Meari was moving toward the north-northeast at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Meari initially formed as a smaller counterclockwise circulation within a much broader cyclonic circulation that stretched from the Northern Mariana Islands toward the Philippines.\u00a0 The initial surface center weakened on Thursday and a new center of circulation organized northeast of the original center.\u00a0 A primary rainband began to wrap around the southern and east side of the low level center.\u00a0 Numerous other bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming within the broader cyclonic circulation.\u00a0 More bands of showers and thunderstorms were developing southwest of the new center and fewer bands were northeast of the center.\u00a0 The new center of circulation is still consolidating and Tropical Storm Meari still does not have a well developed core.<\/p>\n
Although Meari is still not well organized, the tropical storm is moving through an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Meari is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge is located over Tropical Storm Meari and the upper level winds are weak.\u00a0 So, there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Warm water and little shear should allow Tropical Storm Meari to continue to intensify.\u00a0 The lack of a well formed inner core and the large broad cyclonic circulation will slow the rate of strengthening.<\/p>\n
The reformation of the center of circulation farther toward the northeast caused the forecast track guidance from numerical models to shift to a more northeasterly track.\u00a0 If the current center of Tropical Storm Meari persists, it is located near the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 Meari is expected to move toward the northeast around the western end of the ridge.\u00a0 When Meari moves farther north, westerly winds in the middle latitudes will accelerate the tropical storm toward the northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The circulation designated as Tropical Storm Meari reorganized west of Guam on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Meari was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 139.0\u00b0E which put it about 415 miles (670 km) west of Guam.\u00a0 Meari was moving toward the north-northeast at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[563,45,107,44,181,96,562,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351"}],"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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}