Tropical Storm Nari developed south of Japan on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Japan Meteorological Agency designated a low pressure system south of Honshu as Tropical Storm Nari when the maximum sustained wind speed reached 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nari was located at latitude 30.2\u00b0N and longitude 136.9\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) south of Nagoya, Japan.\u00a0 Nari was moving toward the north at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Nari exhibited more of a hybrid structure than the structure of a pure tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nari developed when an upper level low pressure system stalled south of the Japan.\u00a0 A surface circulation formed beneath the upper low and then more thunderstorms formed closer to the center of circulation.\u00a0 The original upper level low was located southwest of the surface low on Thursday night.\u00a0 The upper level low was producing southwesterly winds which were blowing across the surface low.\u00a0 Those winds were creating vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Nari showed evidence of the effect of that wind shear.\u00a0 The stronger thunderstorms were in a band that curved around north and west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands south and east of the center consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 The wind field around Tropical Storm Nari was also asymmetric.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 115 miles (185 km) to the east of the center of circulation, but only extended out about 60 miles (95 km) to the west of the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nari will move through an environment only marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Nari will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper low will continue to cause vertical wind shear, which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 The upper low will also pull some drier air around the southern side of the circulation.\u00a0 Nari could strengthen a little during the next 24 hours if more thunderstorms develop closer to the center of circulation.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nari will move under stronger westerly winds in about a day or so.\u00a0 Those winds will cause more vertical wind shear and they should prevent further intensification.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nari will be steered by the interaction of the upper low and a subtropical ridge over the western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 Those two features are likely to steer Nari toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Nari could approach the coast of Honshu near Nagoya in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Nari will move more toward the east when it reaches the stronger westerly winds in a day or so.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nari could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to central Honshu on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nari developed south of Japan on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Japan Meteorological Agency designated a low pressure system south of Honshu as Tropical Storm Nari when the maximum sustained wind speed reached 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nari was located at latitude 30.2\u00b0N and […]<\/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":[453,461,44,765,1553,474,1552,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986"}],"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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}