Tropical Storm Yutu formed southeast of the Marianas on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Yutu was located at latitude 8.7\u00b0N and longitude 156.4\u00b0E which put it about 880 miles (1420 km) east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Yutu was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
A distinct low level center of circulation developed in an area or thunderstorms northeast of Chuuk and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Yutu.\u00a0 The circulation around Yutu was organizing quickly.\u00a0 An inner band of showers and thunderstorms was wrapping around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming and they were starting to revolving around the center.\u00a0 Storms near the center were producing upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Yutu will be moving through an environment that is very favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Yutu will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through an environment where the upper level winds are weak and there will little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Yutu could strengthen into a typhoon within 36 hours and it could rapidly intensify into the equivalent of a major hurricane within three or four days.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Yutu will move around the western end of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean during the next few days.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Yutu toward the northwest during the next two or three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Yutu will approach the Marianas in about three days.\u00a0 It will likely be a typhoon by that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Yutu formed southeast of the Marianas on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Yutu was located at latitude 8.7\u00b0N and longitude 156.4\u00b0E which put it about 880 miles (1420 km) east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Yutu was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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":[888,102,45,107,44,136,105,106,1336,889,1337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907"}],"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=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6908,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}