Damaging Tropical Storm Lekima moved up the east coast of China on Saturday.\u00a0 Although former Typhoon Lekima weakened to a tropical storm, there were reports that it caused deaths, damage and floods in eastern China.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Lekima was located at latitude 34.3\u00b0N and longitude 120.5\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (160 km) south of Qingdao, China.\u00a0 Lekima was moving toward the north at 18 m.p.h. (29 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 980 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Typhoon Lekima made landfall south of Shanghai and then it moved northward over eastern China.\u00a0 Lekima dropped heavy rain over areas near the east coast of China.\u00a0 The heavy rain caused flooding in some locations.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Lekima weakened on Saturday, but it continued to drop heavy rain on the coastal region north of Shanghai.\u00a0 A portion of the circulation was still over the Yellow Sea and the strongest winds were occurring in rainbands over water.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Lekima will continue to move northward and weaken on Sunday, but it still has the potential to cause additional flooding.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Typhoon Krosa finally started to move northwestward near Iwo To.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Krosa was located at latitude 23.2\u00b0N and longitude 139.9\u00b0E which put it about 140 miles (230 km) southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Krosa was moving toward the northwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 965 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krosa mixed cooler water to the surface while it was stationary south of Iwo To.\u00a0 The cooler water didn’t provide enough energy to maintain the inner core of Krosa which weakened significantly.\u00a0 Typhoon Krosa could strengthen when it moves away from the cooler water.\u00a0 However, the lack of a well formed inner core will limit the rate of intensification.\u00a0 Krosa will move around the western part of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer the typhoon toward the northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Krosa could approach the large islands of Japan in about four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Damaging Tropical Storm Lekima moved up the east coast of China on Saturday.\u00a0 Although former Typhoon Lekima weakened to a tropical storm, there were reports that it caused deaths, damage and floods in eastern China.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Lekima was located at latitude 34.3\u00b0N and longitude 120.5\u00b0E […]<\/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":[472,466,43,107,44,1577,1571,1587,1092,1570,1580,473,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088"}],"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=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8089,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/8089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}