August 12, 2011 
Tropical Depression 13W is all but a distant memory now with all convection blown off due to wind shear and dry continuing to be wrapped in to the system. On that note the tropics are relatively quite; with no invest areas it looks like we may get a break from the tropical action at least for.
There is an area of convection near the Philippines today enhancing the monsoonal flow and bring un needed rain to the southern reaches. This is nothing organized yet there is a continued threat of mudslides in this region due to the unseasonable high amount of rain the region has received in recent months. A few of the models are picking up on some sort of development in this region over the next week yet it is long range and not to promising. ( Model outlook below)
Meanwhile the westerly’s continue to have activity, a low developing out of china is bringing rain and thunderstorms across the Korean peninsula and extending in to Eastern china today, this is forecasted to continue to drift east over the weekend and enhance summer time thunderstorms across Japan. The Kanto plain has a fair chance of seeing these thunderstorms yet they will likely be more concentrated to the south.
~Meteorologist Robert Speta
WesternPacificWeather.com 
