Tropical Storm Noul intensified on Monday as it moved closer to Yap.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Noul was located at latitude 9.4\u00b0N and longitude 138.8\u00b0E which put it about 55 miles east of Yap and about 290 miles east-northeast of Palau.\u00a0 Noul was moving toward the west-southwest at 5 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. and there were gusts 80 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 982 mb.<\/p>\n
A primary rainband appears to be wrapping around the small center of circulation in Tropical Storm Noul.\u00a0 It continues to move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature in near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 A subtropical ridge east of Noul is generating light easterly winds over the top the circulation.\u00a0 The flow is causing modest vertical wind shear and may be the reason why many of the thunderstorms are forming to the west of the center.\u00a0 If the rainband can wrap completely around the center, then an eye may form.\u00a0 Noul is likely to remain in an environment that will support further intensification and it could become a typhoon within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Noul is near the western end of a subtropical ridge and it is moving slowly.\u00a0 The slow motion is likely to continue for another day or so.\u00a0 After that time, the subtropical ridge is expected to strengthen and extend farther westward.\u00a0 As the ridge extends westward, it is forecast to steer Noul toward the west-northwest later this week.<\/p>\n
On the projected track Noul will move almost directly over Yap on Tuesday.\u00a0 It could be near typhoon intensity at that time and bring wind and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Noul intensified on Monday as it moved closer to Yap.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Noul was located at latitude 9.4\u00b0N and longitude 138.8\u00b0E which put it about 55 miles east of Yap and about 290 miles east-northeast of Palau.\u00a0 Noul was moving toward the west-southwest 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":[95,96,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}