Typhoon Krovanh continued to intensify on Thursday and it is now the equivalent of a Major Hurricane.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Krovanh was located at latitude 24.1\u00b0N and longitude 142.5\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Krovanh was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\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 935 mb.\u00a0 The weather station on Iwo To is currently reporting sustained winds of 33 m.p.h. (53 km\/h) with wind gusts to 48 m.p.h. (77 km\/h).<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krovanh has probably reached its peak intensity.\u00a0 It may be pulling in some drier air from the northwest.\u00a0 It also looks like an upper level trough near Japan is beginning to cause southwesterly winds over the top of the typhoon.\u00a0 There is a gap in the eyewall on the south side and clouds are beginning to obscure the eye on satellite imagery.\u00a0 Vertical wind shear will increase as Krovanh moves farther north and it gets closer to the upper level trough.\u00a0 Krovanh will also start to move over cooler Sea Surface Temperatures which will increase the rate at which it weakens.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krovanh is moving around the western end of the subtropical ridge that has been steering it.\u00a0 It will start to turn toward the northeast on Friday as the upper level trough begins to steer the typhoon.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Krovanh will pass within about 50 to 60 miles (80 to 95 km) of Iwo To during the next few hours and then it will be very near Chichi Jima in about 18 hours.\u00a0 Krovanh could cause gusty winds, heavy rain and large waves as it passed near those two islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Krovanh continued to intensify on Thursday and it is now the equivalent of a Major Hurricane.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Krovanh was located at latitude 24.1\u00b0N and longitude 142.5\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Krovanh was moving toward the north-northwest at […]<\/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":[178,182,107,44,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}