Tropical Storm Nanmadol formed southeast of Taiwan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Nanmadol was located at latitude 20.7\u00b0N and longitude 127.1\u00b0E which put it about 475 miles (765 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Nanmadol was moving toward the northwest at 24 m.p.h. (35 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 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
A center of circulation consolidated rapidly on Saturday in an area of thunderstorms southeast of Taiwan.\u00a0 A primary band of showers and thunderstorms wrapped around the northern and western side of the circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms developed in the northern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center began to generate upper level divergence which pumped out mass to the north of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nanmadol will move through an area favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Nanmadol will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge northeast of Nanmadol is producing southeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the tropical storm, but there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nanmadol is likely to intensify on Sunday.\u00a0 When Nanmadol moves farther north, it will move over cooler water and it will be effected by the upper level westerly winds in the middle latitudes.\u00a0 Cooler water and more vertical wind shear will cause Nanmadol to start to weaken at that time.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nanmadol is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it quickly toward the northwest.\u00a0 Nanmadol will move in a general north-northwesterly direction on Sunday.\u00a0 It will turn toward the northeast in 24 to 36 hours when it begins to be steered by the mid-latitude westerlies.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Nanmadol could approach the southernmost Ryukyu Islands including Ishigaki Jima in about 12 hours.\u00a0 The center is expected to pass west of Okinawa.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nanmadol could approach Kyushu in a couple of days.\u00a0 An intensifying Tropical Storm Nanmadol will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to the southernmost Ryukyu Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nanmadol formed southeast of Taiwan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Nanmadol was located at latitude 20.7\u00b0N and longitude 127.1\u00b0E which put it about 475 miles (765 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Nanmadol was moving toward the northwest at 24 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[434,44,133,46,194,130,42,721,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163"}],"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=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}