A low level circulation with a primary spiral band developed within a broad area of thunderstorms and the system was classified as Tropical Depression 06W on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday night the center of Tropical Depression 06W was located at latitude 7.5\u00b0N and longitude 141.2\u00b0E which put it about 240 miles southeast of Yap and about 430 miles east of Palau.\u00a0 06W was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 50 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 06W is an environment favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 It is over Sea Surface Temperatures that are warmer than 28\u00b0C and it will be able to extract plenty of energy from the ocean along its path.\u00a0 An upper level ridge northeast of the circulation is generating some easterly winds over the top of it, but the vertical wind shear is only likely to slow the rate of intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Depression 06W is likely to become a tropical storm on Sunday and it could become a typhoon in several days.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering 06W toward the west and it is expected to continue to steer it in a generally west-northwesterly motion during the next day or so.\u00a0 The movement could slow as 06W nears the western end of the subtropical ridge.\u00a0 The eastern end of a second subtropical ridge located farther west could take over as the primary steering mechanism in two or three days.\u00a0 In that scenario Tropical Depression 06W would continue to move toward the northern Philippines.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 06W could be nearing Yap in 24 to 30 hours.\u00a0 It is likely to be a tropical storm at that time and it could bring some wind and rain to Yap.<\/p>\n
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A low level circulation with a primary spiral band developed within a broad area of thunderstorms and the system was classified as Tropical Depression 06W on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday night the center of Tropical Depression 06W was located at latitude 7.5\u00b0N and longitude 141.2\u00b0E which put it about 240 miles […]<\/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":[95,96,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}