Tropical Storm Ampil moved toward Okinawa on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Ampil was located at latitude 23.3\u00b0N and longitude 130.6\u00b0E which put it about 320 miles (520 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the north-northwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil strengthened on Thursday, although its appearance on satellite imagery was not particularly impressive.\u00a0 There was a distinct low level center of circulation, but the most of the stronger thunderstorms were occurring in a rainband southwest of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands in other parts of the tropical storm consisted primarily of showers and low clouds.\u00a0 It appeared that some drier air could have wrapped around the southern and eastern sides of the circulation.\u00a0 The drier air may have inhibited the development of taller thunderstorms in those parts of Tropical Storm Ampil.\u00a0 The circulation was fairly large and winds to tropical storm force extended out about 185 miles (295 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil will move through an environment that could support further intensification during the next day or two.\u00a0 Ampil will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will be near the eastern end of an upper level low, but Tropical Storm Ampil will move under a zone where the upper level winds will not be too strong.\u00a0 There will be some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 The main factor that could inhibit intensification will be the drier air already around the circulation.\u00a0 If the strong rainband in the southwestern part of Tropical Storm Ampil wraps around the center of circulation, it could prevent the drier air from affecting the core of the tropical storm.\u00a0 If that happens, the Tropical Storm Ampil would be likely to intensify and it could become a typhoon.\u00a0 However, if the drier air works its way into the center of circulation, then Ampil will not intensify.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil will move southwest of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Ampil in a northwesterly direction during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Ampil could be near Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands in less than 24 hours.\u00a0 Ampil could reach the east coast of China south of Shanghai in about two days.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Ampil will bring gusty winds to the Ryukyu Islands later on Friday.\u00a0 Ampil could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to parts of eastern China during the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Ampil moved toward Okinawa on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Ampil was located at latitude 23.3\u00b0N and longitude 130.6\u00b0E which put it about 320 miles (520 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the north-northwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 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":[476,1091,43,44,46,194,1092,42,1090,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227"}],"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=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}