Tropical Storm Dolphin turned toward the west on Monday and showed signs of more organization.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Dolphin was located at latitude 10.3\u00b0N and longitude 158.0\u00b0E which put it about 490 miles east-northeast of Chuuk and about 950 miles east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the west at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 65 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Dolphin is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 Satellite imagery suggests that the circulation became more symmetrical although many of the stronger thunderstorms are west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 A strong upper level ridge is located northwest of Dolphin and it is generating easterly winds winds over the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear may be the reason why the stronger thunderstorms are west of the center.\u00a0 The upper level ridge is also contributing to an outflow channel to the southwest of Dolphin which cold pump out more mass.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is inhibiting the intensification of Dolphin.\u00a0 However, as the tropical storm moves farther west, it could move into an area where the upper level winds are lighter.\u00a0 Given the warm SSTs, a decrease in shear would lead to more intensification.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is expected to steer Dolphin toward the west during the next two or three days.\u00a0 A turn toward the west-northwest will be possible later in the week if a weakness develops in the ridge.\u00a0 On the anticipated track Dolphin could approach Guam in 48 to 60 hours and it could be a typhoon by that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Dolphin turned toward the west on Monday and showed signs of more organization.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Dolphin was located at latitude 10.3\u00b0N and longitude 158.0\u00b0E which put it about 490 miles east-northeast of Chuuk and about 950 miles east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward […]<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}