Tropical Storm Kalmaegi brought wind and rain to northern Luzon on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center Tropical Storm Kalmaegi was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0N and longitude 121.2\u00b0W which put it about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Baguio, Philippines.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the south-southwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 987 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Typhoon Kalmaegi weakened to a tropical storm before it made landfall on the north coast of Luzon near Aparri.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was under the western end of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge produced strong southerly winds which blew toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds caused moderate vertical wind shear which weakened thunderstorms in the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Drier air from Asia was pulled into the western part of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The stronger thunderstorms were occurring northeast of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center in most parts of Tropical Storm Kalmaegi.\u00a0 A high pressure system over Asia was contributing to a bigger pressure gradient in the northwestern quadrant of Kalmaegi and winds to tropical storm force extended out 200 miles (320 km) in that area.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Kalmaegi was dropping locally heavy rain over parts of northern Luzon.\u00a0 The heavy rain was creating the potential for flash floods.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will be steered toward the southwest by the high pressure system over Asia. On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Storm Kalmaegi will pass near Baguio.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will continue to weaken as it moves over northern Luzon.\u00a0 It will move over the South China Sea northwest of Manila.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Kalmaegi will continue to drop heavy rain over parts of Luzon and the flash flood threat will continue for several more days.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Fung-wong developed east of Luzon on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST the center of Tropical Storm Fung-wong was located at latitude 16.3\u00b0N and longitude 127.8\u00b0E which put it about 425 miles (685 km) east-southeast of Aparri, Philippines.\u00a0 Fung-wong was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 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 1000 mb.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Fung-wong is forecast to strengthen during the next 36 hours while it moves toward the Luzon Strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Kalmaegi brought wind and rain to northern Luzon on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center Tropical Storm Kalmaegi was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0N and longitude 121.2\u00b0W which put it about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Baguio, Philippines.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the south-southwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[277,293,1817,1824,1826,1811,103,604,64,42,1825,1813,278,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895"}],"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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8896,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}