Typhoon Nangka has moved steadily northward toward Japan during the past several days.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Nangka was located at latitude 26.0\u00b0N and longitude 136.4\u00b0E which put it about 580 miles (935 km) south of Kobe, Japan.\u00a0 Nangka was moving toward the north at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (170 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 Nangka went through several eyewall replacement cycles in recent days which produced fluctuations in its intensity.\u00a0 It currently has a circular, slightly ragged eye.\u00a0 The circulation is still fairly symmetrical although the thunderstorms appear to be taller and stronger in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 There is strong upper level divergence to the east of the circulation.\u00a0 Nangka remains over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 There is little vertical wind shear and the typhoon has the potential for some intensification during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge located east of Nangka is steering it toward the north and that general steering pattern is expected to continue during the next two days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Nangka could approach the island of Shikoku in about 48 hours.\u00a0 The typhoon will move over cooler SSTs when it nears Japan, which will weaken it somewhat.\u00a0 However, Nagka is a large powerful typhoon.\u00a0 It has a Hurricane Intensity Index of 17.8 and a Hurricane Size Index of 26.7, which gives it a Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index of 44.5.\u00a0 At its current size and intensity Nanga is capable of producing widespread serious damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Nangka has moved steadily northward toward Japan during the past several days.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Nangka was located at latitude 26.0\u00b0N and longitude 136.4\u00b0E which put it about 580 miles (935 km) south of Kobe, Japan.\u00a0 Nangka was moving toward the north at 13 m.p.h. (21 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":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154"}],"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=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}