Tropical Storm Pabuk neared southern Thailand late on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Pabuk was located at latitude 8.0\u00b0N and longitude 101.0\u00b0E which put it about 110 miles (170 km) southeast of Sichon, Thailand.\u00a0 Pabuk was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pabuk exhibited more organization on Thursday.\u00a0 A broken ring of showers and thunderstorms surrounded the center of circulation.\u00a0 Stronger thunderstorms were occurring in the western part of the ring, while weaker storms and showers comprised the rest of the ring.\u00a0 Several bands of thunderstorms were on the western side of Tropical Storm Pabuk.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were also on the eastern side of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the northwest of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pabuk will move through an environment favorable for intensification for the next six to twelve hours.\u00a0 Pabuk will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move around the western end of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will produce southeasterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Pabuk could intensify during the short term.\u00a0 It will reach the coast of southern Thailand in less than 12 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pabuk will weaken when it moves across the Isthmus of Kra.\u00a0 Pabuk could strengthen again when it moves over the Andaman Sea in a day or so.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pabuk will move around the western end of the subtropical ridge, which will steer the tropical storm in a northwesterly direction.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Pabuk will make landfall on the coast of southern Thailand near Sichon in a few hours.\u00a0 Pabuk will move across the Isthmus of Kra and into the Andaman Sea in a day or so.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pabuk could reach the Andaman Islands within 60 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pabuk will bring gusty winds and heavy rain to southern Thailand.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods, especially in areas of steeper terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Pabuk neared southern Thailand late on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Pabuk was located at latitude 8.0\u00b0N and longitude 101.0\u00b0E which put it about 110 miles (170 km) southeast of Sichon, Thailand.\u00a0 Pabuk was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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":[1417,589,1423,371,1424,69,370,1416,174,1419,1418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273"}],"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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}