Tropical Storm Jelawat formed near Yap on Sunday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Jelawat was located at latitude 7.6\u00b0N and longitude 138.4\u00b0E which put it about 120 miles (195 km) south of Yap.\u00a0 Jelawat was moving toward the 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 surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
A low level center of circulation formed near the eastern edge of a cluster of thunderstorms near Yap on Sunday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Jelawat.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Jelawat does not have a well organized circulation.\u00a0 There is a distinct low level center of circulation, but most of the stronger thunderstorms are occurring west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The bands in the eastern half of the circulation consist mainly of showers and low clouds.\u00a0 An upper level ridge over the Central North Pacific Ocean is producing strong easterly winds which are blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are generating strong vertical wind shear and the shear is the main reason for the asymmetrical distribution of storms.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Jelawat will be moving through an environment that is somewhat favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Jelawat will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level ridge will continue to cause vertical wind shear.\u00a0 If the shear is not too strong and the circulation remains vertically coherent, then Tropical Storm Jelawat could strengthen during the next several days.\u00a0\u00a0 Some models predict this scenario and forecast that Jelawat will intensify into a typhoon.\u00a0 Alternatively, if the wind shear increases further, strong upper level winds could blow the upper half of the circulation away from the lower level circulation.\u00a0 If that occurs, Tropical Storm Jelawat will weaken.<\/p>\n
The ridge over the Central North Pacific is steering Tropical Storm Jelawat toward the northwest.\u00a0 Jelawat will reach the western end of the ridge in 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 The tropical storm will turn more toward the north when it reaches the end of the ridge.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Storm Jelawat is forecast to pass between Yap and Palau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Jelawat formed near Yap on Sunday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Jelawat was located at latitude 7.6\u00b0N and longitude 138.4\u00b0E which put it about 120 miles (195 km) south of Yap.\u00a0 Jelawat was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed […]<\/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":[667,45,107,44,95,42,669,96,983,668,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707"}],"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=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}