A tropical cyclone named Halola intensified a few hundred miles south of Japan on Tuesday and it reached typhoon intensity.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Halola was located at latitude 23.1\u00b0N and longitude 140.2\u00b0E which put it about 840 miles (1360 km) east-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Halola was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (170 km).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Halola is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The circulation is relatively well organized and an eye has been visible intermittently on satellite imagery.\u00a0 There are many more thunderstorms in the eastern half of the circulation and there have been breaks in the western side of the eyewall at times.\u00a0 It could be that there is some drier air to the northwest of the center.\u00a0 Halola is currently moving through a region where the upper level winds are relatively light and there has not been much vertical wind shear today.\u00a0 The lack of wind shear has allowed upper level outflow to become well developed to the east and south of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Halola has the potential to intensify further during the next 48 hours while it is a region of modest vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Halola toward the west and a general west-northwestward movement is expected to continue during the next several days.\u00a0 In two or three days Halola will reach the western end of the subtropical ridge and it will turn toward the north.\u00a0 Guidance from numerical models varies on the strength of the subtropical ridge and the timing of the northward turn.\u00a0 It is possible that Halola could threaten southwestern Japan later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tropical cyclone named Halola intensified a few hundred miles south of Japan on Tuesday and it reached typhoon intensity.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Halola was located at latitude 23.1\u00b0N and longitude 140.2\u00b0E which put it about 840 miles (1360 km) east-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Halola was moving toward the […]<\/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":[44,46,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}