The active period over the tropical Western North Pacific Ocean continues with the development of another tropical cyclone south of Pohnpei.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression 07W was located at latitude 4.4\u00b0N and longitude 156.8\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles south-southeast of Pohnpei.\u00a0 The tropical depression was stationary.\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
A low level circulation center formed within a broad area of thunderstorms and the system was classified as Tropical Depression 07W.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms are mainly located in the northwestern part of the circulation.\u00a0 An upper level ridge located east of the depression is generating southeasterly winds over the top of it which is producing modest vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear is the probably reason why most of the thunderstorms are northwest of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The wind shear will also limit the rate of intensification during the next day or two.\u00a0 Eventually the depression is expected to move farther west into an area with less wind shear and it could intensify more quickly.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 07W is located near the western end of a subtropical ridge and the steering currents are relatively weak.\u00a0 It may not move much for the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Later this week the ridge is expected to strengthen and steer the depression toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its projected track the depression could approach Pohnpei in two or three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The active period over the tropical Western North Pacific Ocean continues with the development of another tropical cyclone south of Pohnpei.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression 07W was located at latitude 4.4\u00b0N and longitude 156.8\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles south-southeast of Pohnpei.\u00a0 The tropical depression was stationary.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[102,45,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}