Tropical Storm Roke is close to making a landfall near Hong Kong.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Roke was located at latitude 22.4\u00b0N and longitude 114.1\u00b0E which put it about 35 miles (55 km) east of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Roke was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 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 sutface pressure was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Roke will make landfall on the coast of China near Hong Kong during the next few hours.\u00a0 Roke will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall as it move inland over eastern China.\u00a0 Flash flooding could occur in places that receive heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, there are three more tropical storms over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 Tropical Storm 08W is the only other imminent threat to land.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm 08W was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0N and longitude 111.5\u00b0E which put it about 85 miles (135 km) southeast of Hainan Island.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west at 4 m.p.h. (6 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 999 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Noru was located at latitude 28.3\u00b0N and longitude 151.3\u00b0E which put it about 920 miles (1485 km) east-southeast of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Noru was moving toward west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT the center of Tropical Storm Kulap was located at latitude 30.8\u00b0N and longitude 166.8\u00b0E which put it about 790 miles (1270 km) north of Wake Island.\u00a0 Kulap was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 1000 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Roke is close to making a landfall near Hong Kong.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Roke was located at latitude 22.4\u00b0N and longitude 114.1\u00b0E which put it about 35 miles (55 km) east of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Roke was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 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":[453,739,459,472,43,468,127,42,737,736,735,738,63,80,454,740,460,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314"}],"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=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}