Large and dangerous Typhoon Dujuan is nearing Taiwan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Dujuan was located at latitude 23.5\u00b0N and longitude 123.2\u00b0W which put it about 185 miles (300 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Dujuan was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 145 m.p.h. (235 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 170 m.p.h. (275 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 912 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Dujuan is a very symmetrical storm with a large eye.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extend out 60 miles from the center.\u00a0 A weather station on Ishigaki Jima, Japan has reported winds over 54 m.p.h. (87 km\/h) for the past five hours even though the center is passing south of that island.\u00a0 The upper level winds around the typhoon are light and upper level divergence is pumping out mass in all directions\u00a0 Typhoon Dujuan is likely to maintain its intensify until it makes landfall in Taiwan.\u00a0 When the core of the typhoon moves over the mountains on Taiwan it will weaken.\u00a0 However, given Dujuan’s size and intensity, it is likely to still be a typhoon when it moves west of Taiwan.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Dujuan is steering the typhoon toward the west-northwest and that general steering pattern is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Dujuan will make landfall in northeastern Taiwan in less than 12 hours.\u00a0 It will move across Taiwan and the center could reform northwest of that island.\u00a0 Dujuan could make a landfall in China between Xiamen and Fuzhou in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Dujuan has the potential to be a very destructive typhoon.\u00a0 It has a Hurricane Intensity Index of 29.9 and a Hurricane Size Index of 21.3.\u00a0 Those numbers produce a Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index of 51.2.\u00a0 Those Indices suggest it is capable of producing widespread significant damage.\u00a0 In addition to wind damage, Dujuan is capable of producing very heavy rainfall and floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Large and dangerous Typhoon Dujuan is nearing Taiwan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Dujuan was located at latitude 23.5\u00b0N and longitude 123.2\u00b0W which put it about 185 miles (300 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Dujuan was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/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":[191,43,44,194,42,193,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}