Tropical Storm Bailu formed east of Luzon on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Bailu was located at latitude 15.4\u00b0N and longitude 131.6\u00b0E which put it about 930 miles (1500 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Bailu was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 998 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system east of northern Luzon strengthened on Wednesday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Bailu.\u00a0 The circulation around Bailu was gradually exhibiting greater organization.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming and the bands were starting to revolve around the center of the tropical storm.\u00a0 There were more thunderstorms in the bands on the western side of Tropical Storm Bailu.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were beginning to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from Bailu.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Bailu will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next two to three days.\u00a0 Bailu will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move southeast of an upper level ridge that extends from eastern Asia over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will produce northeasterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Bailu will intensify during the next several days and it could strengthen into a typhoon.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Bailu will move south of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Bailu in a northwesterly direction.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Bailu could approach Taiwan in about 72 hours.\u00a0 Bailu could be a typhoon by that time.\u00a0 Bands on the western side of Tropical Storm Bailu could drop locally heavy rain over parts of northern Luzon.\u00a0 Flash floods could occur in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Bailu formed east of Luzon on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Bailu was located at latitude 15.4\u00b0N and longitude 131.6\u00b0E which put it about 930 miles (1500 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Bailu was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[476,1599,43,44,103,64,194,1081,42,1598,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125"}],"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=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}