Tropical Storm Noul intensified slowly on Tuesday and it attained typhoon status as it passed over Yap.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Noul was located at latitude 9.5\u00b0N and longitude 137.5\u00b0E which put it about 20 miles west-southwest of Yap and about 230 miles east-northeast of Palau.\u00a0 Noul was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.\u00a0 Noul brought wind and heavy rain to Yap on Tuesday.\u00a0 The International Airport reported a wind gust of 68 m.p.h. as the center of Noul passed just south of it.<\/p>\n
An upper level ridge located east of the center of circulation is causing light easterly winds to blow over the top of Noul, which is generating some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The shear could be the reason why most of the strongest thunderstorms are occurring in the southwestern quadrant of the circulation.\u00a0 Noul remains over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is around 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is likely to slow the rate of intensification, but Noul is in an environment that favors further strengthening.<\/p>\n
Noul is at the western end of a subtropical ridge and the steering pattern is relatively weak.\u00a0 It is likely to continue to move slowly for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Eventually a subtropical ridge is expected to build north of Noul and steering it toward the west-northwest at a faster speed.\u00a0 On its projected path the center of Noul would pass several hundred miles north of Palau.\u00a0 Noul could be approaching the northern Philippines by late in the week.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Noul intensified slowly on Tuesday and it attained typhoon status as it passed over Yap.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Noul was located at latitude 9.5\u00b0N and longitude 137.5\u00b0E which put it about 20 miles west-southwest of Yap and about 230 miles east-northeast of Palau.\u00a0 Noul was moving […]<\/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\/748"}],"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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}