Typhoon Vongfong has made the anticipated turn and it is now moving toward the north.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT the center of Typhoon Vongfong was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 129.5\u00b0E which put it about 440 miles south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Vongfong was moving toward the north-northwest at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 150 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 185 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Vongfong is moving around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system, which should continue to steer it in a generally northerly direction for the next 36-48 hours.\u00a0 When Vongfong nears southwestern Japan, it will begin to encounter upper level westerly winds, which will push it toward the northeast.\u00a0 The model guidance suggest that Vongfong could be very near the coast of Japan in about 72 hours.<\/p>\n
Microwave satellite imagery suggests that a larger outer eye is wrapping around a small inner eye that represents the current center of Vongfong.\u00a0 The start of an eyewall replacement cycle usually produces weakening of a tropical cyclone, although there can be some fluctuations in intensity.\u00a0 When Vongfong gets closer to Japan, upper level westerly winds will increase the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 More wind shear will speed up the weakening trend.\u00a0 Current guidance suggests that Vongfong could still be a typhoon when it approaches Japan in about three days.\u00a0 However, it is likely to weaken to a strong tropical storm as it moves across parts of Japan.\u00a0 Even if it does weaken, Vongfong could still bring gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n
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Typhoon Vongfong has made the anticipated turn and it is now moving toward the north.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT the center of Typhoon Vongfong was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 129.5\u00b0E which put it about 440 miles south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Vongfong was moving toward the north-northwest at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}