Tropical Storms Sinlaku and Hagupit formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Sinlaku was located at latitude 19.4\u00b0N and longitude 107.1\u00b0E which put it about 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Nam Dinh, Vietnam.\u00a0 Sinlaku was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 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 993 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around a low pressure system near Vietnam exhibited greater organization on Saturday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Sinlaku.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Sinlaku.\u00a0 There were more thunderstorms in the bands on the western side of the circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 110 miles (185 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Sinlaku has about 12 hours to strengthen before it makes landfall in northern Vietnam.\u00a0 Sinlaku will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0.\u00a0 It will move under the southeast part of an upper level ridge over Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of Sinlaku.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear and the shear will limit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Sinlaku will bring gusty winds and rain to northern Vietnam on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The circulation around a second low pressure system east of Taiwan also exhibited more organization on Saturday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated that system as Tropical Storm Hagupit.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Hagupit was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0N and longitude 126.5\u00b0W which put it about 220 miles (350 km) southeast of Ishigaki, Japan.\u00a0 Hagupit was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Hagupit was still organizing on Saturday.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were developing in bands in the eastern half of Hagupit.\u00a0 Bands in the western side of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Hagupit were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the east of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Hagupit will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Hagupit will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 Hagupit will move into a region where the upper level winds are weaker and there will not be a lot of vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hagupit is likely to intensify during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Hagupit will move around the western end of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Hagupit toward the northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Storm Hagupit will pass near Ishigaki, Japan in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Hagupit will approach the coast of China south of Shanghai in about 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storms Sinlaku and Hagupit formed over the Western North Pacific Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Sinlaku was located at latitude 19.4\u00b0N and longitude 107.1\u00b0E which put it about 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Nam Dinh, Vietnam.\u00a0 Sinlaku was moving toward the northwest at 12 […]<\/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":[667,697,43,2114,1080,44,2112,194,1092,2111,42,2113,2110,63,668,698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958"}],"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=9958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9959,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958\/revisions\/9959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}