Tropical Storm Phanfone churned toward the Philippines on Sunday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Phanfone was located at latitude 9.7\u00b0N and longitude 133.5\u00b0E which put it about 525 miles (850 km) east-southeast of Guiuan, Philippines.\u00a0 Phafone was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (29 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 999 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Phanfone exhibited greater organization on Sunday night.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms were occurring in bands northwest of the center.\u00a0 Bands in other parts of the circulation had fewer storms and consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center were generating upper level divergence which pumped mass away to the west of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) in the northern half of Phanfone and out 40 miles (65 km) on the southern side of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Phanfone will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Phanfone will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move south of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce southeasterly winds which will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear diminished during recent hours.\u00a0 The shear will slow the rate of intensification, but it will not be strong enough to keep Phanfone from intensifying.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Phanfone will continue to intensify and it could strengthen into a typhoon within 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Phanfone will move south of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Phanfone toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Phanfone could reach the central Philippines within 36 hours.\u00a0 Phanfone could be a typhoon by the time it approaches Samar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Phanfone churned toward the Philippines on Sunday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Phanfone was located at latitude 9.7\u00b0N and longitude 133.5\u00b0E which put it about 525 miles (850 km) east-southeast of Guiuan, Philippines.\u00a0 Phafone was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (29 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[601,1862,1861,64,296,1860,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039"}],"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=9039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}