A very favorable environment of warm Sea Surface Temperatures and light upper level winds is allowing Typhoon Phanfone to intensify rapidly.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Phanfone was located at latitude 19.5\u00b0N and longitude 139.0\u00b0E which put it about 400 miles south-southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Phanfone was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h.\u00a0 It had maximum sustained winds of 120 m.p.h. and gusts to 150 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Phanfone is moving around the western end of the subtropical high pressure system and its track should take a more northward turn.\u00a0 When Phanfone gets to a higher latitude, it will encounter the upper level westerly flow which will turn it northeastward.\u00a0 Guidance from numerical models suggest that Phanfone could be south of Japan in about 72 hours.<\/p>\n
Phanfone will be in a favorable environment during the next 36 hours and further intensification is possible.\u00a0 When Phanfone encounters the upper level westerly flow, wind shear will increase and it will start to weaken.\u00a0 Phanfone will eventually make a transition to an extratropical cyclone as it moves northeastward over the North Pacific.<\/p>\n
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A very favorable environment of warm Sea Surface Temperatures and light upper level winds is allowing Typhoon Phanfone to intensify rapidly.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Phanfone was located at latitude 19.5\u00b0N and longitude 139.0\u00b0E which put it about 400 miles south-southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Phanfone was moving toward the west-northwest […]<\/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":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"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=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}