Tropical Storm Bavi continued to move rapidly toward the west-northwest toward Guam on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Bavi was located at latitude 10.7\u00b0N and longitude 157.6\u00b0E which put it about 880 miles east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Bavi was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 60 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Strong easterly winds in the upper levels are creating vertical wind shear and are inhibiting intensification of Bavi.\u00a0 The wind shear is also causing most of the thunderstorms to be located on the western side of the circulation.\u00a0 Thus, Bavi is not well organized at the current time.\u00a0 However, Bavi is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and it could strengthen slowly as it moves farther west, if the wind shear decreases.<\/p>\n
A strong subtropical ridge to the north of Bavi is steering it rapidly westward.\u00a0 Bavi could be in the vicinity of Guam in about 48 hours.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to continue to steer Bavi westward after it moves past Guam and it could approach the Philippines in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Bavi continued to move rapidly toward the west-northwest toward Guam on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Bavi was located at latitude 10.7\u00b0N and longitude 157.6\u00b0E which put it about 880 miles east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Bavi was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.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":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}