Tropical Storm Talas formed east of Vietnam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Talas was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 110.1\u00b0E which put it about 170 miles (270 km) east-northeast of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Talas was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h. (17 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 large area of showers and thunderstorms persisted over the South China Sea for the past several days.\u00a0 A distinct center of circulation began to develop in the northern part of the area of thunderstorms.\u00a0 The Japan Meteorological Agency classified the system as Tropical Storm Talas on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Talas is still organizing.\u00a0 The center of rotation was near the northwestern edge of the area of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Additional thunderstorms were beginning to form near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were southwest of the center.\u00a0 Bands of lighter showers were occurring in the remainder of Tropical Storm Talas.\u00a0 Thunderstorms forming near the center of circulation were beginning to generate strong upper level divergence which was pumping out mass.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Talas has about 24 hours to strengthen.\u00a0 Talas will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge north of Talas is producing easterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the tropical storm.\u00a0 There is some vertical wind shear, but the shear appears to have diminished during the past few hours.\u00a0 Since Tropical Storm Talas will be moving through an environment of very warm water and reduced vertical wind shear, it will likely strengthen during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Talas is steering the tropical storm toward the west and motion a little to the north of due west is forecast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Storm Talas will pass south of Hainan Island.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Talas will approach the coast of Vietnam near Vinh in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Talas will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to Central Vietnam when it makes landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Talas formed east of Vietnam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Talas was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 110.1\u00b0E which put it about 170 miles (270 km) east-northeast of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Talas was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h. (17 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":[442,608,43,173,71,174,729,63,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250"}],"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=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}