Krovanh continued to intensify rapidly on Wednesday and it reached typhoon status.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Krovanh was located at latitude 21.5\u00b0N and longitude 144.5\u00b0E which put it about 330 miles (530 km) southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Krovanh was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 961 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krovanh remains in a very favorable environment.\u00a0 It is over water with warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are light.\u00a0 The absence of significant vertical wind shear has allowed upper level divergence to continue to pump away mass in all directions.\u00a0 The structure of the inner core of Krovanh improved as it intensified and the typhoon now has a well developed eye surrounded by a nearly complete eyewall.\u00a0 The favorable environment could allow Krovanh to intensify for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 When the typhoon begins to approach latitude 30\u00b0N, it will begin to be affected by the upper level westerly winds in the middle latitudes.\u00a0 The increased vertical wind shear will begin to weaken Krovanh.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krovanh is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 The ridge should steer Krovanh toward the northwest for another 24 hours.\u00a0 When it reaches the western end of the ridge, the typhoon will start moving toward the north.\u00a0 As the upper level westerly winds start to affect Krovanh, those winds will accelerate it toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Krovanh could be approaching Iwo To in about 24 hours and it could be near Chichi Jima in about 36 hours.\u00a0 Krovanh could be a strong typhoon when it passes those islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Krovanh continued to intensify rapidly on Wednesday and it reached typhoon status.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Krovanh was located at latitude 21.5\u00b0N and longitude 144.5\u00b0E which put it about 330 miles (530 km) southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Krovanh was moving toward the 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":[178,182,107,44,181,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"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=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}