Tropical Storm Yutu is now near typhoon intensity, with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
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As of 4am today, Tropical Storm Yutu was moving west-northwest at 16 mph.<\/p>\n
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Typhoon watches remain effect for Tinian and Saipan. A tropical storm watch remains in effect for Rota.<\/p>\n
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According to the National Weather Service in Guam, residents of Alamagan, Pagan, and Agrihan should continue to monitor the progress of Tropical Storm Yutu.<\/p>\n
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At 4am, the center of Tropical Storm Yutu was located about 240 miles north-northeast of Chuuk, about 550 miles east-southeast of Saipan and Rota, about 555 miles east-southeast of Tinian, and about 565 miles east-southeast of Guam.<\/p>\n
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Yutu is expected to continue its west-northwest to northwest motion through Thursday, bringing Yutu near or just north of Saipan late Wednesday night or Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
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Maximum sustained winds have increased to 65 mph. Yutu will become a typhoon later today, and is expected to continue intensifying through Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 80 miles southwest of the center, and up to 150 miles elsewhere.<\/p>\n
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Because of the anticipated threat, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres has maintained Typhoon Condition 3 for the islands of Saipan and Tinian and Tropical Storm Condition 3 for the island of Rota as of 5am this morning.<\/p>\n
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Typhoon Condition 3 means that damaging winds of 74 mph or greater are possible within 48 hours;<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Condition 3 means that damaging winds of 39-73 mph are possible within 48 hours. (HSEM)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Yutu is now near typhoon intensity, with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,1226,23088,5944],"class_list":["post-287252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-tropical-storm-condition","tag-tropical-storm-yutu","tag-typhoon-condition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287252","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}