Tropical Storm Podul dropped heavy rain on Vietnam on Thursday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Podul was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 106.5\u00b0E which put it about 10 miles (15 km) northwest of Dong Hoi, Vietnam.\u00a0 Podul was moving toward the west at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Podul made landfall near Dong Hoi, Vietnam on Thursday.\u00a0 The structure of Podul was very asymmetrical.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms were occurring in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Podul was moving south of an upper level ridge over eastern Asia.\u00a0 The ridge was producing strong easterly winds which were blowing across the top of Podul.\u00a0 Those winds were causing strong vertical wind shear and they were the reason why most of the thunderstorms were in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 As a result of the wind shear, heavy rain was already falling over Vietnam even before the center made landfall.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge was steering Tropical Storm Podul rapidly toward the west.\u00a0 Podul will weaken quickly as it moves farther inland.\u00a0 Even though Tropical Storm Podul will weaken quickly, heavy rain will fall over portions of Laos and northeastern Thailand on Friday.\u00a0 Locally heavy rainfall could cause flash floods in parts of Vietnam, Laos and northeastern Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Podul dropped heavy rain on Vietnam on Thursday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Podul was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 106.5\u00b0E which put it about 10 miles (15 km) northwest of Dong Hoi, Vietnam.\u00a0 Podul was moving toward the west at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[477,1624,173,1614,174,1613,63,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197"}],"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=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8198,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}