Large Typhoon Chan-hom is approaching the far southern islands of Japan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Chan-hom was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0N and longitude 129.2\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles (480 km) south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 956 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Chan-hom has a very large circulation.\u00a0 It has a 32 mile (50 km) wide eye and hurricane force winds extend out 40 miles (65 km) in all directions from the center.\u00a0 The circulation is very symmetrical and upper level divergence is well developed in all directions.\u00a0 Chan-hom is still over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and there is little wind shear.\u00a0 Further intensification is possible, although the size of the circulation could limit the rate of intensification.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Chan-hom toward the northwest and that steering pattern is expected to continue during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Chan-hom could pass south of Okinawa on Thursday.\u00a0 Given the large circulation it could bring winds and rain to that island.\u00a0 The center could come close to Miyako-Jima and that location and other nearby islands could experience typhoon force winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Large Typhoon Chan-hom is approaching the far southern islands of Japan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Chan-hom was located at latitude 22.8\u00b0N and longitude 129.2\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles (480 km) south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Chan-hom was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed […]<\/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":[43,44,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"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=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}