Tropical Storm Podul formed east of Luzon on Monday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Podul was located at latitude 15.1\u00b0N and longitude 125.2\u00b0E which put it about 250 miles (400 km) east of Baler, Philippines.\u00a0 Podul was moving a little to the north of due west at 25 m.p.h. (40 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 level center of circulation in an area of thunderstorms east of Luzon was visible in satellite imagery on Monday night and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Podul.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Podul was not well organized.\u00a0 Many of the thunderstorms were occurring in broken bands west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern half of Podul consisted primarily showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Podul was moving south of an upper level ridge over eastern Asia and the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge was producing easterly winds which were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The shear was contributing to the poorly organized circulation around Podul.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Podul will move through an environment mostly unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours,\u00a0 Podul will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level ridge will continue to cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The center will move across northern Luzon and increased friction will weaken the circulation.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Podul could weaken to a tropical depression when it crosses Luzon.\u00a0 Podul could strengthen in the middle of the week when it moves west of Luzon and out over the South China Sea.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Podul will move south of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Podul a little to the north of due west during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Podul will move across northern Luzon on Tuesday. Podul will cause gusty winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 The rain could cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Podul will move west of Luzon and over the South China Sea in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Podul could approach Hainan Island in about 72 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Podul formed east of Luzon on Monday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Podul was located at latitude 15.1\u00b0N and longitude 125.2\u00b0E which put it about 250 miles (400 km) east of Baler, Philippines.\u00a0 Podul was moving a little to the north of due west at 25 […]<\/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":[477,1615,43,468,103,64,1614,71,1613,63,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170"}],"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=8170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}