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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunder, strong winds
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset

A late season tropical depression has formed in the West Pacific, 369 nautical miles west-northwest of Guam. Winds are estimated to be at 30kts. The depression has some moderately deep convection in the eastern quadrant of the LLC. Shear is increasing over the depression has it recurves northeastwards, and as a result, strengthening will be limited prior to the imminent onset of extratropical transition as 33W runs into cooler waters within the next 24hrs. 33W may briefly become a tropical storm prior to the transition.

 

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

NASA Sees Thirty-third Tropical Depression Form in Northwestern Pacific 

 
MODIS Image of 33W:
 
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The Northwestern Pacific Ocean tropical cyclone season continues with the formation of the thirty-third tropical depression today, December 3, 2013.Two NASA satellites provided a look at the newly formed depression's cloud cover and rainfall rates. At 0320 UTC today, NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the newborn depression. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument captured a visible image of the storm, showing that the circulation had become more organized since the day before. The depression appeared as a rounded area of clouds on the MODIS image. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite also passed over the depression, but only over the northwestern edge. During the overpass, TRMM's Precipitation Radar instrument identified an area of moderate to heavy rainfall north of the center of circulation, where rain was falling at a rate of 1 inch/30 mm per hour.
 
On December 3 at 1500 UTC/10 a.m. EST, Tropical Depression 33W had maximum sustained winds near 30 knots/34.5 mph/55.5 kph. It was located approximately 369 nautical miles/424.6 miles/683.4 km west-northwest of Guam, near 16.0 north latitude and 138.9 east longitude. 33W was moving to the north at 6 knots/6.9 mph/11.1 kph but is expected to turn to the northeast.  The National Weather Service does not expect Guam to be adversely affected by the depression as forecasts for the next several days call for mostly sunny skies. Wednesday, December 4 is expected to bring the breeziest conditions from the depression. The National Weather Service expects winds on that day to be from the east-southeast at 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center expect Tropical Depression 33W to become extra-tropical in the next day or two. The depression is expected to curve to the northeast and continue in that general direction for the next couple of days toward the Northern Mariana Islands.

 

 

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/33w-northwestern-pacific-ocean/#.Up4DUNKzKuJ

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunder, strong winds
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset

33W has been stripped bare by strong shear overnight, and has degenerted into remnant low. Regeneration is not expected, and the system is no longer expected to become an extratropical storm, and should instead dissipate entirely.

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

Out with a whimper! 

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