Tropical Storm Vongfong brought wind and rain to Luzon on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 am. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Vongfong was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0N and longitude 121.2\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Vongfong was moving toward the north-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 990 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Typhoon Vongfong weakened to a tropical storm on Friday after the center passed across northern Samar and southeastern Luzon.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Vongfong was small but it remained well organized.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in rainbands in the eastern half of the circulation which was over the Philippine Sea.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 50 miles (80 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 The wind speeds were not as strong over land, although stronger winds may have been occurring at locations in mountainous regions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Vongfong dropped locally heavy rain over southeastern and eastern Luzon.\u00a0 The center of Vongfong passed west of Legaspi and east of Manila.\u00a0 Heavy rain may have fallen on the slopes of the Mayon Volcano and flash floods could have occurred in that region.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Vongfong will move around the western end of a high pressure system centered southeast of Japan.\u00a0 The high steer Vongfong toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The tropical storm will start to move toward the northeast during the weekend after it moves around the western end of the high pressure system.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Vongfong will move over northern Luzon during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Vongfong will continue to bring gusty winds and drop locally heavy rain over parts of northern Luzon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Vongfong brought wind and rain to Luzon on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 am. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Vongfong was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0N and longitude 121.2\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Vongfong was moving toward the north-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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":[606,1812,103,604,64,296,2004,2005,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497"}],"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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}