Tropical Storm Halong intensified yesterday into a super typhoon, moving west farther away from the CNMI and Guam. <\/p>\n
Halong, however, is generating large swells and the public is being warned that hazardous surf of 7 to 10 feet will persist along west facing reefs through at least Tuesday night, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
As precautionary actions, the agency advises people to avoid venturing near exposed reefs and beaches, especially those along west facing reefs as rip currents will be life threatening.<\/p>\n
As of 1pm yesterday, Halong\u2019s center was located 810 miles west of Saipan or 755 miles west-northwest of Guam. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
Moving west at 8 mph, the super typhoon is expected to turn north-northwest tonight, Monday, and begin a slow weakening trend.<\/p>\n
In Palau, hazardous surf of 8 to 9 feet will persist through today, Monday, along west and north facing shores.<\/p>\n
In Yap, hazardous surf of 9 to 10 feet should peak Sunday night along west and north facing shores. The surf is expected to gradually subside late today, Monday. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Halong intensified yesterday into a super typhoon, moving west farther away from the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,51,1030,67],"class_list":["post-44100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-guam","tag-national-weather-service","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44100","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}