The island of Rota has been placed on Tropical Storm Condition 3 due to the current threat brought by Tropical Depression 34W, which was previously known as Tropical Disturbance 92W. <\/p>\n
As of 2pm yesterday, acting governor Victor B. Hocog declared Tropical Storm Condition 3 for Rota. <\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Condition 3 means damaging winds of 39-73 mph are possible within 48 hours.<\/p>\n
The system was seen packing winds of 30 mph as of 2pm, but is expected to intensify drastically overnight into a tropical storm. <\/p>\n
Guam has also been put on tropical storm watch as of 2pm yesterday. <\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 34W, previously called Tropical Disturbance 92W, was expected to pass south of Guam this week but had intensified and continued west-northwest. <\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Service in Guam, at 1pm yesterday, the center of Tropical Depression 34W was located near latitude 5.0 degrees north and longitude 155.1 degrees east. <\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 34W is moving west-northwest at 13 mph and is expected to continue in this direction but its forward speed will gradually increase through Thursday.<\/p>\n
Maximum sustained winds remain at 30 mph, but Tropical Depression 34W is expected to intensify through Thursday, becoming a tropical storm.<\/p>\n
The CNMI Emergency Operations Center State Warning Point will continue to monitor the movement of Tropical Depression 34W and will issue bulletins as they become available. <\/p>\n
The CNMI community is urged to keep a close watch on updates to weather forecasts and stay informed on the latest statements and advisories that will be available through local media sources. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The island of Rota has been placed on Tropical Storm Condition 3 due to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,1025,7017,1226],"class_list":["post-288960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-tropical-depression","tag-tropical-disturbance","tag-tropical-storm-condition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288960","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}