Small Craft Advisory

* WHAT...West to northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with occasional gusts to 35 kt expected.

* WHERE...Palau Coastal Waters.

* WHEN...From 6 AM this morning to 6 PM ChST Saturday.

* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...An intensifying monsoon surge along the southern peripheries of a developing trough axis stretching from TS Saudel westward, is expected to enhance a secondary embedded monsoon disturbance that will bring persistently fresh to strong westerlies to much of western Micronesia the next several days.