Former Tropical Storm Maysak intensified into a typhoon on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Maysak was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0N and longitude 128.7\u00b0E which put it about 335 miles (540 km) east of Luzon.\u00a0 Maysak was moving toward the west-northwest at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon Maysak exhibited greater organization on Saturday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped partially around the center of circulation and an eye could be forming at the center of Maysak.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Maysak.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the core.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 185 miles (295 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Maysak will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Maysak will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds will be weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Maysak will continue to strengthen and it could intensify rapidly when an eye and eyewall are fully formed.\u00a0 Maysak could strengthen into the equivalent of a major hurricane within 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Maysak will move around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Maysak toward the north during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Maysak will move toward the southern Ryukyu Islands.\u00a0 Maysak could pass near Okinawa in about 48 hours.\u00a0 Typhoon Maysak is likely to be the equivalent of a major hurricane when it passes near Okinawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Maysak intensified into a typhoon on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Maysak was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0N and longitude 128.7\u00b0E which put it about 335 miles (540 km) east of Luzon.\u00a0 Maysak was moving toward the west-northwest at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[472,44,103,2183,46,64,194,130,42,2184,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227"}],"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=10227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10228,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}