Tropical Storm Nakri stalled west of the Philippines on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nakri was located at latitude 12.8\u00b0N and longitude 116.8\u00b0E which put it about 290 miles (465 km) west-southwest of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nakri was moving toward the south at 2 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 980 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nakri meandered slowly west of the Philippines on Thursday.\u00a0 The structure of Nakri did not change a lot during the day.\u00a0 There was a distinct low level center center of circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were forming on the south side of the center and the strongest winds were occurring in those thunderstorms.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also developing in bands in the southern half of Tropical Storm Nakri.\u00a0 Bands in the northern half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms south of the center generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the west of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 175 miles (280 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nakri will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Nakri mixed cooler water to the surface during the period when it meandered west of the Philippines, but it will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C when it starts moving.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nakri will move southeast of an upper level ridge over southeast Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will inhibit intensification, but it will not be strong enough to prevent Tropical Storm Nakri from strengthening.\u00a0 Nakri will likely become a typhoon on Friday or Saturday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nakri has been in an area where the steering winds have been weak and it has moved little during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 The ridge over southeast Asia will strengthen and it will steer Nakri toward the east during the next 72 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Nakri could approach the coast of Vietnam in less than 72 hours.\u00a0 Nakri is likely to be a typhoon when it approaches the coast of Vietnam.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Typhoon Halong was passing north of Minami Tori Shima, Japan.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Typhoon Halong was located at latitude 27.2\u00b0N and longitude 154.4\u00b0E which put it about 175 miles (280 km) north of Minami Tori Shima, Japan.\u00a0 Halong was moving toward the northeast at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 968 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nakri stalled west of the Philippines on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nakri was located at latitude 12.8\u00b0N and longitude 116.8\u00b0E which put it about 290 miles (465 km) west-southwest of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nakri was moving toward the south at 2 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[239,242,1795,44,604,1798,1800,64,1799,1797,63,240,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812"}],"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=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}