Tropical Storm Nock-ten strengthened as it moved closer to the Philippines on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nock-ten was located at latitude 12.0\u00b0N and longitude 132.7\u00b0E which put it about 850 miles (1370 km) east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nock-ten was moving toward the west-northwest at 22 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 987 mb.<\/p>\n
Even though Tropical Storm Nock-ten moved quickly on Thursday the circulation continued to organized.\u00a0 A mid-level eye appeared to develop on microwave satellite imagery.\u00a0 Additional rainbands developed outside the core of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the core of Nock-ten generated strong upper level divergence that pumped out mass in all directions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nock-ten 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 An upper level ridge to the east of Nock-ten is producing southeasterly winds that are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 However, Tropical Storm Nock-ten is moving fairly rapidly toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 The rapid motion is reducing the effective vertical wind shear, and so the wind shear is not inhibiting intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nock-ten will continue to strengthen and it should become a typhoon within 12 to 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the north of Nock-ten is steering the tropical storm toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 The subtropical ridge is expected to strengthen after that time and it will steer Nock-ten more toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Nock-ten will approach southeast Luzon in about 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Nock-ten is likely to be a strong typhoon when it reaches the Philippines.\u00a0 It could be the equivalent of a major hurricane.\u00a0 In addition to strong winds, Nock-ten will generate a storm surge\u00a0 and produce locally heavy rains.\u00a0 It will produce a risk of floods and mudslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nock-ten strengthened as it moved closer to the Philippines on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nock-ten was located at latitude 12.0\u00b0N and longitude 132.7\u00b0E which put it about 850 miles (1370 km) east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nock-ten was moving toward the west-northwest at 22 m.p.h. (35 […]<\/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":[601,103,96,600,63,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"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=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}