Tropical Storm Gaemi formed near Kaohsiung on the southwest coast of Taiwan late on Thursday.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Gaemi was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0N and longitude 120.2\u00b0E which put it near Kaohsiung, Taiwan.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the northeast at 5 m.p.h. (8 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 992 mb.<\/p>\n
A distinct low level center of circulation developed in an area of showers and thunderstorms southwest of Taiwan on Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Gaemi.\u00a0 Thunderstorms developed near the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Several short bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core.\u00a0 Mountains in eastern Taiwan may have deflected the flow in the lower levels and contributed to the organization of a center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms around the center were generating some upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the east of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gaemi is likely to weaken during the next few hours while the center of circulation moves across southern Taiwan.\u00a0 Mountains in eastern Taiwan could disrupt the lower portions of the circulation when it moves over them.\u00a0 If the circulation still exists when it moves east of Taiwan in a few hours, then Tropical Storm Gaemi will move into a more favorable environment for intensification.\u00a0 Gaemi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough over eastern Asia is producing southwesterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will probably not be strong enough to tear the circulation apart.\u00a0 Gaemi could remain a tropical storm for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 When Tropical Storm Gaemi moves farther north in a day or two, it will move over colder water and into an area with stronger vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Gaemi will likely make a transition to an extratropical cyclone at that time.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough is forecast to steer Tropical Storm Gaemi toward the northeast.\u00a0 Gaemi will move across southern Taiwan during the next few hours.\u00a0 It will cause gusty winds, but the greater risks will be heavy rain and flash floods.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Gaemi will move near the southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan.\u00a0 It could pass near Ishigaki Jima and Miyako Jima in the next 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Gaemi could be near Okinawa later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Gaemi formed near Kaohsiung on the southwest coast of Taiwan late on Thursday.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Gaemi was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0N and longitude 120.2\u00b0E which put it near Kaohsiung, Taiwan.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the northeast at 5 m.p.h. (8 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":[739,1042,1044,44,1043,1045,46,194,42,1041,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037"}],"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=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}