Tropical Storm Mawar moved closer to a landfall in China on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Mawar was located at latitude 22.2\u00b0N and longitude 116.4\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles (240 km) east of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Mawar was moving toward the west-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 55 m.p.h. (90 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Mawar is very asymmetrical.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms are located south of the center of circulation.\u00a0 A primary rainband is just south of the center of circulation and there are several other bands farther south of the center.\u00a0 Recent visible satellite images suggest that the eastern end of the primary rainband could be trying to wrap around the center.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the primary rainband were generating some upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the southwest of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Mawar will move through an environment that is somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Mawar will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge centered over China is producing northeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are generating moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Those winds may also be the reason for the asymmetrical distribution of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Mawar could intensify before it makes landfall in China.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Mawar is being steered slowly toward the west-northwest by a ridge near Japan.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Mawar will make landfall in China east of Hong Kong in 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Mawar will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to parts of Guangdong province.\u00a0 The rain could contribute to flooding in some locations.\u00a0 Mawar is likely to weaken steadily after it makes landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Mawar moved closer to a landfall in China on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Mawar was located at latitude 22.2\u00b0N and longitude 116.4\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles (240 km) east of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Mawar was moving toward the west-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 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":[166,43,127,42,803,63,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696"}],"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=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}