Tropical Storm Ampil neared landfall on the coast of China southeast of Shanghai on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Ampil was located at latitude 31.0\u00b0N and longitude 122.3\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Shanghai, China.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22km\/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 990 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil moved steadily toward the coast of China on Saturday with little change of structure or intensity.\u00a0 Drier air continued to circulate around the tropical storm and it limited the development of taller thunderstorms in much of Ampil.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms were occurring in the inner portion of a band northwest of center of circulation.\u00a0 The strongest winds were associated with those storms.\u00a0 Bands around the rest of Tropical Storm Ampil consisted of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 165 miles (270 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ampil will make landfall on the coast of China southeast of Shanghai in a few hours.\u00a0 Ampil will cause gusty winds and the strong band of thunderstorms will drop locally heavy rain.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause flash floods in parts of eastern China.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere the tropics became more active over the Western North Pacific Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 The remnants of former Tropical Storm Son-tinh were reorganizing west of Hainan Island over the Gulf of Tongking, Tropical Depression 13W moved east of Taiwan, and Tropical Depression 14W formed northwest of Wake Island and Tropical Depression 15W formed west of Guam.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression Son-tinh was located at latitude 19.2\u00b0N and longitude 108.2\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) west of Dongfeng, China.\u00a0 Son-tinh was moving toward the east-southeast at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Son-tinh completed a slow clockwise loop over Laos and Vietnam which during the past several days and it emerged back over the Gulf of Tongking on Saturday.\u00a0 There was a distinct low level center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were circulating around the enter.\u00a0 The rainbands were dropping heavy rain over Hainan Island and creating the potential for flash floods.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression 13W was located at latitude 21.6\u00b0N and longitude 122.9\u00b0E which put it about 165 miles (265 km) south-southeast of Hualien, Taiwan.\u00a0 It was moving toward the northwest at 18 m.p.h. (29 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression 14W was located at latitude 22.5\u00b0N and longitude 159.4\u00b0E which put it about 370 miles (600 km) east-southeast of Minami Tori Shima.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression 15W was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 138.1\u00b0E which put it about 225 miles (365 km) north-northwest of Ulithi.\u00a0 It was moving toward the northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Ampil neared landfall on the coast of China southeast of Shanghai on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Ampil was located at latitude 31.0\u00b0N and longitude 122.3\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Shanghai, China.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the west-northwest at […]<\/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":[466,476,477,771,501,1091,43,45,1095,468,44,173,1092,1087,42,1090,1086,1096,63,80,467,478,479,772,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242"}],"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=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}