Typhoon Goni moved steadily westward on Wednesday and it got closer to northern Luzon and Taiwan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Goni was located at latitude 18.9\u00b0N and longitude 125.3\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Goni was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (215 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 937 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Goni intensified on Wednesday and it is a very well organized tropical cyclone.\u00a0 It has a large well formed eye.\u00a0 The circulation is symmetrical although there are more thunderstorms in the south half of the typhoon.\u00a0 Upper level divergence is well developed and it is pumping out mass in all directions.\u00a0 Goni remains over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are relatively light.\u00a0 Some further intensification is possible during the next day or so.\u00a0 Goni could run into stronger upper level winds in two or three days which would create more vertical wind shear and start to weaken the typhoon.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge has been steering Goni toward the west and it is expected to do so again on Thursday.\u00a0 However, Goni is nearing the western end of the ridge and it is forecast to turn to the north on Friday.\u00a0 Goni appears to have moved more slowly during the past few hours, which may be an indication that it is reaching the western end of the ridge.\u00a0 An upper level trough northwest of Goni is expected to turn Goni toward the northeast during the weekend and then accelerate it toward western Japan.<\/p>\n
On its anticipated track, the center of Goni is expected to pass northeast of Luzon.\u00a0 However, the circulation is large enough that some of northern Luzon could experience strong winds and heavy rain.\u00a0 The center of Goni is forecast to pass east of Taiwan, but it could also bring strong winds heavy rain to some locations there as well.\u00a0 The core of Goni could pass very near Ishigaki Jima and bring very strong winds and heavy rain to the islands in that area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Goni moved steadily westward on Wednesday and it got closer to northern Luzon and Taiwan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Goni was located at latitude 18.9\u00b0N and longitude 125.3\u00b0E which put it about 350 miles (565 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Goni was moving toward the west at 12 […]<\/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\/1373"}],"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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}