Strong Typhoon Phanfone has reached the western edge of a subtropical high pressure system and it is making the expected turn toward the north.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Phanfone was located at latitude 24.0\u00b0N and longitude 134.0\u00b0E which put it about 870 miles south-southwest of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Phanfone was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 150 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Phanfone went through an eyewall replacement cycle on Thursday in which the small inner eye dissipated and a much larger eye became apparent on satellite imagery.\u00a0 The eyewall replacement cycle kept the intensity of Phanfone relatively constant.\u00a0 Now that the inner eye is gone, the outer eye is likely to contract.\u00a0 Phanfone remains over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and it is a favorable atmospheric environment.\u00a0 So, some further intensification is possible during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 In 24 to 36 hours Phanfone will be far enough north to begin to be influenced by upper level westerly winds.\u00a0 The stronger upper level winds will increase wind shear over Phanfone and start a weakening process.\u00a0 A combination of stronger wind shear and colder air to the north of Phanfone will initiate a process whereby it is transformed from a tropical cyclone to an extratropical cyclone.\u00a0 It is difficult to determine the exact timing of the extratropical transition and Phanfone will be a powerful extratropical cyclone as it moves across the North Pacific.<\/p>\n
Phanfone should gradually turn more toward the north during the next 24 hours as it moves around the western edge of the subtropical high pressure system.\u00a0 It is likely to take a sharper turn to the northeast later in the weekend when it encounters the upper level westerlies.\u00a0 Phanfone is likely to approach southern Japan in 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Some models are indicating that it could cross parts of Central Japan, while other models keep the center south of Japan.\u00a0 In either case Phanfone has the potential to brig locally heavy rain and gusty winds to portions of Japan.<\/p>\n
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Strong Typhoon Phanfone has reached the western edge of a subtropical high pressure system and it is making the expected turn toward the north.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Phanfone was located at latitude 24.0\u00b0N and longitude 134.0\u00b0E which put it about 870 miles south-southwest of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Phanfone was moving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}