Jelawat peaked late Saturday night as a super typhoon but weakened to a tropical storm as it continued barreling yesterday toward the Northern Islands. <\/p>\n
Moving east-northeast at 14 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, Tropical Storm Jelawat\u2019s center at 1pm yesterday was only 35 miles north-northwest of Agrihan and 85 miles north-northwest of Pagan. <\/p>\n
According to the U.S. National Weather Service Guam, Jelawat is weakening rapidly as of 1pm and could soon be downgraded to a tropical depression.<\/p>\n
As of 8am yesterday, a tropical storm warning was in effect for Agrihan and Pagan as Jelawat was moving east at 10 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph.<\/p>\n
Jelawat did not pose a threat to Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.<\/p>\n
A tropical storm warning means tropical storm conditions including damaging winds of 39 mph to 73 mph are expected within the next 24 hours. <\/p>\n
Jelawat was expected to pass around 25 miles north of Agrihan late Sunday night or early this morning, Monday.<\/p>\n
NWS also issued yesterday high surf advisories for north and west facing reefs of Saipan, Tinian, Rota, and Guam as large swells from Jelawat across the region.<\/p>\n
NWS said Jelawat remains a very disorganized tropical storm as vertical wind shear continues to wreak havoc on its storm structure.<\/p>\n
As of 7am yesterday, the center of the storm was 125 miles west of Agrihan, 135 miles of west-northwest of Pagan, and 280 miles northwest of Saipan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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