A dry trade-wind pattern is expected to continue the next two weeks with only a few showers at times, according to the latest advisory from the National Weather Service in Guam.<\/p>\n
The upper-level pattern is starting to become more favorable for shower development but trade-wind disturbances remain weak, said the NWS advisory last Friday. <\/p>\n
\u201cGuam will continue to receive more showers than the CNMI. Model guidance is beginning to lift deep convection north of 10N but keep rainfall amount between 1 to 2 inches for Guam the next two weeks or so with lower amounts across the CNMI. It may be a month or so before adequate rainfall returns to Guam and one to two months for Saipan and Tinian,\u201d the advisory states.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone has strengthened and weak disturbances have edged farther north and west recently. These features have provided much-needed showers for most islands south of 8N across all of Micronesia. A favorable upper-level pattern has encouraged showers to develop farther north across Micronesia east of Chuuk. The northward shift in the convergence zone as well as the presence of upper-level divergence are indicators that a wetter pattern is beginning to establish across most islands of Micronesia south of 10N,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n
Right now, there are no official water conservation measures are in effect for the Mariana Islands. Officials report water levels are still above thresholds for concern. <\/p>\n
For more information, contact the CNMI EOC State Warning Point at 237-8000 or 664-8000. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dry trade-wind pattern is expected to continue the next two weeks with only a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":322013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322119","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=322119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}