Tropical Storm Mawar quickly strengthened within the Pacific and was anticipated to turn out to be a strong hurricane, threatening to deliver excessive winds and doable flooding to the Mariana Islands, together with Guam, the Nationwide Climate Service stated.
The storm, which fashioned early on Sunday morning native time and was slowly transferring northward, might hit Guam, a U.S. territory, as early as Tuesday, stated Brandon Bukunt, a meteorologist with the Climate Service.
“We’d need to put out hurricane warnings, through which hurricane situations are anticipated,” Mr. Bukunt stated. “However for proper now, given the uncertainty, now we have a hurricane watch, which signifies that hurricane situations are doable inside two days.”
Tropical Storm Mawar had most sustained wind speeds of fifty miles per hour as of Sunday morning native time, when it was about 570 miles southeast of Guam, the Climate Service stated.
Originally posted 2023-05-21 00:48:56.