Daily weather brief – Friday, January 6, 2017

NORTH

It will be another cold day across the northern portion of the north region today, as frigid Siberian air continues to settle over the area. Temperatures warm up a bit as you travel to the south and east, and skies will be filled with just a few scattered clouds and sunshine, with eastern China seeing a chance for showers pop up along a stalled frontal boundary. Beijing’s air quality will remain at hazardous levels, although not quite as bad as earlier in the week.

City	High/Low C		High/Low F		Conditions
Ulaanbaatar	-14	-26	7	-15	Mostly fair
Vladivostok	-2	-14	28	7	Mostly fair
Beijing	5	-3	41	27	Partly cloudy/HAZARDOUS AIR
Seoul	10	-2	50	28	Partly cloudy
Tokyo	7	-1	45	30	Mostly fair
Shanghai	15	12	59	54	Scattered showers likely

 

CENTRAL

Temperatures are warming up a bit more across the central region and moisture is increasing as well as a rather mild and moist air mass moves northward ahead of a stalled frontal system over eastern China. Clouds and showers are likely over the higher terrain of south-central China, stretching eastward to Taiwan, while the Ryukyu Islands will see a better chance for rain due to their proximity to the stalled front.

City	High/Low C		High/Low F		Conditions
Kunming	13	5	55	41	Scattered showers possible
Hong Kong	26	21	79	70	Partly cloudy
Taipei	25	20	77	68	Scattered showers possible
Naha	24	21	75	70	Periods of rain
Hanoi	27	19	81	66	Mostly cloudy

 

SOUTH

Drier air continues to dominate the northern half of the south region as the strong northeast monsoon takes full hold. You can really divide the region in half, with northern locales seeing plenty of sunshine, and southern locales seeing tropical moisture and numerous scattered showers and thunderstorms. The southern Philippines will be especially under the gun, as a weak low pressure area to the east slowly makes its way toward the island of Mindanao over the next couple of days.

City	High/Low C		High/Low F		Conditions
Siem Reap	32	23	90	73	Partly cloudy
Ho Chi Minh	33	24	91	75	Partly cloudy
Manila	31	23	88	73	Partly cloudy
Davao City	28	23	82	73	Scattered thunderstorms likely
Brunei	31	24	88	75	Scattered thunderstorms possible
Singapore	33	25	91	77	Scattered thunderstorms possible

 

TROPICS

The tropics remain quiet, officially-speaking, but an area of low pressure could make it quite wet in the southern Philippines…

A weak area of low pressure, remnants of what was 95W INVEST, is located east of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, creeping along to the west in the general flow of the depressed I.T.C.Z. (Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone). Development of this system is not expected in the near-term, but the system will bring lots of rainfall to the southern Philippines through the weekend. Elsewhere across the tropics, in the south, there’s plenty of moisture and instability helping generate showers and scattered thunderstorms, while the north is seeing some continental air masses encroach upon them, also helping to generate clouds and showers with occasional thunderstorms. For more details on the tropical situation, please see the “Western Pacific Tropical Update” by meteorologist Mike Adcock on the site.

City	High/Low C		High/Low F		Conditions
Guam	29	24	84	75	Periods of rain
Yap	29	26	84	79	Scattered thunderstorms possible
Palau	29	26	84	79	Scattered thunderstorms possible
Chuuk	28	26	82	79	Scattered thunderstorms possible
Pohnpei	31	26	88	79	Thunderstorms possible
Majuro	29	27	84	81	Thunderstorms possible
Wake	28	24	82	75	Scattered thunderstorms possible

 

Have a fabulous Friday!

Courtesy: CIMSS, Tropical Tidbits, JMA, JTWC, Intellicast, WUnderground.com, N.R.L., RAMMB-NOAA

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