Typhoon Chan-hom turned toward Japan on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Chan-hom was located at latitude 27.5\u00b0N and longitude 132.9\u00b0W which put it about 515 miles (825 km) south-southwest of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 Chan-hom strengthened slowly on Wednesday.\u00a0 An eye with a diameter of 35 miles (55 km) formed at the center of Chan-hom.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a broken ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Chan-hom.\u00a0 Storms near the core generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away to the northeast of the typhoon.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon Chan-hom was large.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 200 miles (320 km) from the center of Chan-hom.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Chan-hom will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Chan-hom will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western end of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce southerly winds which will blow toward the top of Typhoon Chan-hom.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear, which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 The wind shear will limit intensification, but Chan-hom could get stronger during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 An upper level trough over eastern Asia will cause stronger southwesterly winds to blow toward Typhoon Chan-hom in a day or so.\u00a0 Those winds will cause stronger vertical wind shear and they will cause Chan-hom to start to weaken.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Chan-hom will move around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 The high will steer Chan-hom toward the north during that time period.\u00a0 The upper trough over eastern Asia will turn Typhoon Chan-hom toward the northeast during the weekend.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Chan-hom will be southeast of Kyushu and south of Shikoku in about 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Chan-hom turned toward Japan on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Chan-hom was located at latitude 27.5\u00b0N and longitude 132.9\u00b0W which put it about 515 miles (825 km) south-southwest of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was […]<\/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":[514,2260,44,133,763,523,2270,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564"}],"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=10564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}