Tropical Storm Kalmaegi formed east of Luzon on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Kalmaegi was located at latitude 12.9\u00b0N and longitude 128.8\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) east of Legaspi, Philippines.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
The Japan Meteorological Agency determined that former Tropical Depression 27W strengthened into Tropical Storm Kalmaegi on Tuesday night.\u00a0 The circulation Kalmaegi was not well organized.\u00a0 There was a large, broad area of low pressure, but there were few thunderstorms near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Most of the stronger thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the northwestern part of Tropical Storm Kalmaegi.\u00a0 Bands in the other portions of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Kalmaegi will move through an environment marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is plenty of energy in the upper layer of the Western North Pacific Ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 However, Tropical Storm Kalmaegi will move around the southwestern part of an upper level ridge centered south of Japan on Wednesday.\u00a0 The ridge will produce northeasterly winds which will blow across the eastern part of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear and they will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 In 12 to 24 hours Kalmaegi will move closer to the western end of the ridge and the upper level winds will blow from the south.\u00a0 The wind shear could decrease when the wind direction changes, which may allow the tropical storm to strengthen.<\/p>\n
The ridge south of Japan will steer Tropical Storm Kalmaegi toward the northwest during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Kalmaegi could approach northeastern Luzon in 48 to 72 hours.\u00a0 Since the strongest thunderstorms are in the northwestern part of Kalmaegi, the tropical storm could drop locally heavy rain over Luzon even if the center does not make landfall.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Fengshen continued to organize east of the Northern Marianas.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Fengshen was located at latitude 17.4\u00b0N and longitude 155.3\u00b0E which put it about 690 miles (1115 km) east-northeast of Saipan.\u00a0 Fengshen was moving toward the west-northwest 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 1002 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Kalmaegi formed east of Luzon on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Kalmaegi was located at latitude 12.9\u00b0N and longitude 128.8\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) east of Legaspi, Philippines.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[563,277,1808,1811,1812,103,136,64,105,1810,1807,564,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847"}],"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=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}