Goni intensified rapidly from a tropical storm into a strong typhoon on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Goni was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0N and longitude 141.1\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (425 km) west of Anatahan.\u00a0 Goni was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (215 km\/h) which made Goni the equivalent of a major hurricane.\u00a0 There were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h) and the minimum surface pressure was 937 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Goni organized quickly on Sunday and it was able to intensify rapidly.\u00a0 The primary rainband wrapped tightly around the center of circulation and a tiny pinhole eye formed in the center.\u00a0 The band continued to wrap about the core of the circulation and it could be about to form a second, larger concentric eyewall.\u00a0 The structure of Goni looks a lot like the circulation of Typhoon Soudelor did when it intensified rapidly.\u00a0 Light easterly winds in the upper levels enhanced divergence to the west of Goni and pumped out mass allowing the pressure to fall rapidly.<\/p>\n
Goni is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are warm.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is minimal and further intensification is possible.\u00a0 If concentric eyewalls form, eyewall replacement cycles could produce fluctuations in intensity.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Goni toward the west-northwest and that general steering pattern is expected to continue for another three or four days.\u00a0 At that time Goni could be near the western end of the subtropical ridge.\u00a0 An upper level trough in the mid-latitude westerlies could approach the typhoon from the northwest and turn it toward the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Goni intensified rapidly from a tropical storm into a strong typhoon on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Goni was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0N and longitude 141.1\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (425 km) west of Anatahan.\u00a0 Goni was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 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":[43,44,64,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}