{"id":279351,"date":"2018-07-04T06:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=279351"},"modified":"2018-07-04T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:06:56","slug":"tropical-depression-10w-to-intensify-and-become-tropical-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tropical-depression-10w-to-intensify-and-become-tropical-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Depression 10W to intensify and become tropical storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_279369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279369\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Storm-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Storm-pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-279369\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain water starts to collect behind the stage for Liberation Day Parade as Tropical Depression 10W brought rain to the CNMI yesterday. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tropical Depression 10W was slowly consolidating southeast of the Marianas as of late yesterday afternoon and is forecast to gradually intensify and become a tropical storm today, Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>As of 5pm yesterday, a tropical storm watch remains in effect for Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.<\/p>\n<p>It means that tropical storm conditions, including damaging winds of 39 miles per hour or more, are possible within   24 to 36 hours, according to the U.S. National Weather Service Guam.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm warning was also in effect for Guam.<\/p>\n<p>NMS said tropical storm conditions, including damaging winds of 39mph or more, are expected within 24 hours in Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Packing maximum sustained winds at 30mph, Tropical Depression 10W was moving northwest at 10mph.<\/p>\n<p>As of 4pm yesterday, the center of Tropical Depression 10W was 240 miles southeast of Guam, 255 miles southeast of Rota, 295 miles south-southeast of Tinian, and 300 miles south-southeast of Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>The tropical depression caused rains in the CNMI yesterday morning and late afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>NWS advised the public of precautionary measures to prepare for increasing winds by securing loose outdoor items and canopies.<\/p>\n<p>NWS urged mariners to make all necessary preparations to return to port, seek safe harbor, and secure their craft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Depression 10W was slowly consolidating southeast of the Marianas as of late yesterday afternoon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":279369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[26,14721,758,1025],"class_list":["post-279351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cnmi","tag-nms","tag-nws","tag-tropical-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}