Typhoon Tembin moved nearer to southern Vietnam on Sunday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Typhoon Tembin was located at latitude 8.0\u00b0N and longitude 109.3\u00b0E which put it about 290 miles (470 km) southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.\u00a0 Tembin was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 979 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Tembin weakened during the past 12 hours as it moved over the South China Sea.\u00a0 An upper level ridge north of Tembin generated stronger easterly winds on Sunday which increased the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The strong upper level winds weakened the rainbands in the eastern half of the circulation of Typhoon Tembin.\u00a0 Those winds also tilted the upper portion of the circulation toward the west.\u00a0 The low level circulation of Typhoon Tembin remained well organized, but the storms around the center weakened.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms were occurring in bands west of the core of Tembin.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center in the northern half of the circulation and about 25 miles (40 km) in the southern half.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 155 miles (250 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Tembin is likely to continue to weaken on Monday.\u00a0 Typhoon Tembin will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level ridge is likely to continue to generate strong easterly winds and the significant vertical wind shear will make it difficult for tall thunderstorms to develop around much of the circulation.\u00a0 The wind shear will probably weaken Tembin to a tropical storm on Monday.<\/p>\n
The ridge north of Tembin is steering the typhoon toward the west and a general westerly motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Tembin will pass near the southern tip of Vietnam in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Tembin will likely move into the Gulf of Thailand as a tropical storm or tropical depression.<\/p>\n
The heavy rain with Typhoon Tembin is occurring in bands west of the core of the typhoon.\u00a0 So, the heavy rain will begin to fall before the center of circulation reaches places.\u00a0 The heaviest rain will fall over the Mouths of the Mekong River and the part of Vietnam south of that area.\u00a0 The rain could be heavy enough to cause floods in some locations.\u00a0 Gusty winds could produce isolated damage as well in the southern part of Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Tembin moved nearer to southern Vietnam on Sunday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Typhoon Tembin was located at latitude 8.0\u00b0N and longitude 109.3\u00b0E which put it about 290 miles (470 km) southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.\u00a0 Tembin was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[924,73,608,930,922,70,173,69,71,174,929,63,925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329"}],"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=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}