Tropical Storm Choi-Wan

Tropical Storm Choi-Wan is packing 40-kt (45-mph) winds, moving W at 11 kt (13 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

TROPICAL STORM 26W (CHOI-WAN), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 133 NM NORTH-NORTHEAST OF TINIAN, HAS TRACKED WESTWARD AT 11 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE AT 010600Z IS 997 MB. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 010600Z IS 20 FEET. NEXT WARNINGS AT 011500Z, 012100Z, 020300Z AND 020900Z. REFER TO TROPICAL DEPRESSION 25W (SURIGAE) FINAL WARNING (WTPN31 PGTW).— Joint Typhoon Warning Center · warning 06

Choi-Wan tracks over open water — no coast is in the outlook. Along its path, our forecast reads:

This is the West Pacific · 15°N–33°N, 143°E–149°E. Choi-Wan’s forecast track is the dotted spine — the labelled dots mark its position each day. Every cell is shaded by how many hours it spends inside Choi-Wan’s gale-force (≥34 kt · 39 mph) wind across the whole forecast, the damaging core counted double.

Read it two ways at once. Colour is the total — the hours of gale-force wind a place piles up. A slow storm writes its danger in duration, not in any single gust, so the longer the wind sits over a place, the deeper its colour. Opacity is uniform here — this basin publishes no wind-speed-probability field, so the map claims no confidence it has not earned.

searched 34 vetted voices and the open field — nothing said about this system cleared the screen.