Tropical Storm Tembin formed east of the Philippines on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Tembin was located at latitude 9.0\u00b0N and longitude 130.7\u00b0E which put it about 270 miles (435 km) east of Mindanao.\u00a0 Tembin was moving toward the west at 12 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
A more well organized center of circulation developed on the eastern edge of a cluster of thunderstorms east of the Philippines and the Japan Meteorological Agency classified the system as Tropical Storm Tembin.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms in Tembin is asymmetrical.\u00a0 Most of the storms are forming in bands north and west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Those storms are generating upper level divergence which is pumping mass away from the core of Tembin.\u00a0 There are a few thunderstorms in bands on the eastern periphery of the circulation, but most of the bands in the eastern half of Tropical Storm Tembin contain only low clouds and showers.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Tembin will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Tembin will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge north of Tembin is producing easterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are causing moderate vertical wind shear and they are probably the reason why most of the thunderstorms are developing west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 However, the shear has not been enough to prevent Tembin from organizing and Tembin is likely to strengthen during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The center of Tembin will move over Mindanao later on Thursday and it will weaken while the center is over land.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Tembin will likely intensify once the center moves west of Mindanao.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Tembin is steering the tropical storm toward the west and a general westerly motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Storm Tembin could approach Mindanao in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Tembin is then forecast to move over the Bohol Sea and Sulu Sea and on toward Palawan.\u00a0 It currently looks like Tropical Storm Tembin will take a track a little to the south of the track taken by Tropical Storm Kai-tak across the Philippines last week.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Tembin will drop heavy rain over parts of Mindanao, southern Leyte, Bohol, Cebu, Negros, Siargao, and Dinagat.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause floods and mudslides.\u00a0 The northern part of Tropical Storm Tembin could drop heavy rain in some of the places affected by Tropical Storm Kai-tak last week.\u00a0 Any additional rain in those locations would hamper efforts to recover from floods and mudslides caused by Kai-tak.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Kai-Tak continue to move southwest over the South China Sea.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Kai-tak was located at latitude 6.4\u00b0N and longitude 111.1\u00b0E which put it about 440 miles (710 km) southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.\u00a0 Kai-tak was moving toward the southwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Tembin formed east of the Philippines on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Tembin was located at latitude 9.0\u00b0N and longitude 130.7\u00b0E which put it about 270 miles (435 km) east of Mindanao.\u00a0 Tembin was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (20 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":[910,924,913,73,914,922,70,912,69,68,915,921,71,926,174,96,909,923,63,911,925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306"}],"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=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}