Typhoon Goni moved steadily westward away from the Mariana Islands on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Goni was located at latitude 18.3\u00b0N and longitude 135.3\u00b0E which put it about 780 miles (1260 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Goni was moving toward the west at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 944 mb.<\/p>\n
Goni appeared to go through an eyewall replacement cycle on Monday which resulted in a reduction in the maximum wind speed.\u00a0 As the tiny pinhole inner eye weakened, the stronger winds were located in the larger outer eyewall.\u00a0 The reduction in wind speed could be temporary, if the outer eye begins to contract.\u00a0 Goni remains in a favorable environment.\u00a0 It is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperature and the vertical wind shear is very modest.\u00a0 The circulation is producing upper level divergence in all directions.\u00a0 Goni will remain in a favorable environment for another two or three days and it should remain strong during that time period.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Goni toward the west-northwest and that steering pattern is expect to continue for another 48 to 72 hours.\u00a0 Later this week an upper level trough could approach the typhoon from the northwest.\u00a0 Southwesterly winds on the eastern side of the trough could turn Goni toward the north later this week. On its anticipated track Goni could be near Taiwan, the northern Philippines or Okinawa when it makes that turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Goni moved steadily westward away from the Mariana Islands on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Goni was located at latitude 18.3\u00b0N and longitude 135.3\u00b0E which put it about 780 miles (1260 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Goni was moving toward the west at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[43,44,46,64,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"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=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}