Typhoon Mekkhala made landfall on the east coast of China near Xiamen on Monday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Mekkhala was located at latitude 24.8\u00b0N and longitude 117.6\u00b0E which put it about 25 miles west of Xiamen, China.\u00a0 Mekkhala was moving toward the north-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 973 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mekkhala spun up quickly over the South China Sea on Monday.\u00a0 A low pressure system northwest of the Philippines organized into a tropical cyclone which rapidly intensified into a typhoon.\u00a0 A small eye developed at the center of circulation and a ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Mekkhala.\u00a0 Storms near the core generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 15 miles (25 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mekkhala will move around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Mekkhala toward the north during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Mekkhala will move inland over eastern China.\u00a0 It will weaken into a tropical storm on Tuesday as it moves farther inland.\u00a0 Typhoon Mekkhala will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to parts of Fujian, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain could cause flash floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Mekkhala made landfall on the east coast of China near Xiamen on Monday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Mekkhala was located at latitude 24.8\u00b0N and longitude 117.6\u00b0E which put it about 25 miles west of Xiamen, China.\u00a0 Mekkhala was moving toward the north-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[453,43,1611,2131,2130,2129,454,1603,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}