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Foul weather expected to continue
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Posted on Oct 17 2004
CNMI residents can expect the wet weather to continue for a few more days, as tropical depression 28W has intensified into a tropical storm.
Weather officials announced yesterday that tropical storm Nock-Ten continues to slowly intensify and is still moving west.
At 4pm yesterday, the National Weather Service tracked the center of the storm near latitude 10.6 degrees north and longitude 153.8 degrees east. This is about 625 miles east-southeast of Saipan and 640 miles east-southeast of Guam.
No watches or warnings were in effect in the Marianas.
With a wind speed at 65 miles per hour, tropical storm Nock-Ten was moving west at about 7 mph. This general motion was expected to continue over the next 24 hours.
The storm has sped up slightly and come closer to the Marianas region, as compared with its general motion earlier yesterday afternoon.
At 2pm yesterday, the storm was moving westward at 6 mph. The NWS in Guam located the eye of the storm near latitude 10.5 degrees north and longitude 154.2 degrees east. This is about 655 miles southeast of Saipan and 670 miles east-southeast of Guam.
Typically, the slower the storm moves, the more power it can possibly gain.
