Tropical Storm Danas moved near the southern Ryukyu Islands late on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Danas was located at latitude 23.9\u00b0N and longitude 124.1\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south of Ishigaki, Japan.\u00a0 Danas was moving toward the north at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Danas exhibited a little more organization on Wednesday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of circulation and several bands of showers and thunderstorms formed in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The bands north and west of the center consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center began to generate upper level divergence which pumped mass away to the northeast of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 125 miles (200 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Danas will move into an environment somewhat favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Danas will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 A small upper level low near Taiwan will produce southwesterly winds which blow toward the top of the circulation around Tropical Storm Danas.\u00a0 Those winds were the reason why the stronger rainbands were in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear, which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 However, the shear will have less of an effect since Danas will move in the same direction as the upper level winds.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Danas is likely to intensify during the next 24 hours and there is a chance it could strengthen into a typhoon.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Danas will move around the western end of a subtropical ridge over the western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Danas toward the north-northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Danas will move through the southern Ryukyu Islands during the next few hours.\u00a0 Danas will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain when it passes over those islands.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Danas will move over the East China Sea toward southwestern Japan and South Korea during the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Danas moved near the southern Ryukyu Islands late on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Danas was located at latitude 23.9\u00b0N and longitude 124.1\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south of Ishigaki, Japan.\u00a0 Danas was moving toward the north at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\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":[442,43,1548,1149,1080,44,194,130,42,1547,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950"}],"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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7951,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}