Tropical Storm Gaemi brought wind and rain to Okinawa late on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Gaemi was located at latitude 26.7\u00b0N and longitude 127.9\u00b0E which put it near Okinawa.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the east-northeast at 19 m.p.h (30 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 990 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gaemi became better organized after it moved across southern Taiwan early on Friday.\u00a0 The center of circulation was more evident on microwave satellite images.\u00a0 A primary band of showers and thunderstorms formed in the eastern side of circulation.\u00a0 Other showers and thunderstorms were located farther to the northeast of the center of Tropical Storm Gaemi.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Gaemi was producing string southwesterly winds which were blowing toward the top of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear and they were likely the reason why most of the heavier rain was occurring northeast of the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough was also steering Tropical Storm Gaemi quickly toward the east-northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Gaemi will move over the middle Ryukyu Islands including Amami-O-Shima during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Gaemi will continue to produce gusty winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 Most of the rain will fall before the center of circulation reaches a location.\u00a0 Gaemi is likely to make a transition to an extratropical cyclone when it moves south of the larger islands of Japan during the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Gaemi brought wind and rain to Okinawa late on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Gaemi was located at latitude 26.7\u00b0N and longitude 127.9\u00b0E which put it near Okinawa.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the east-northeast at 19 m.p.h (30 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 […]<\/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":[739,1042,44,46,194,42,1041,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048"}],"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=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}