Typhoon Koppu continued to intensify on Friday and it maintained its steady course toward northern Luzon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Koppu was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 124.5\u00b0E which put it about 270 miles (435 km) east-northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Koppu was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 947 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Koppu is evolving into a large well organized typhoon.\u00a0 An eye has formed at the center of the circulation and multiple rain bands spiral around the core of the typhoon.\u00a0 Upper level divergence is pumping mass away from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Koppu is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Koppu is likely to continue to intensify until it begins to interact with northern Luzon.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Koppu toward the west and that steering pattern is expected to continue for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Koppu will be very near the northeastern coast of Luzon in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Koppu will bring strong winds, heavy rain and a storm surge to northern Luzon.\u00a0 The large size of Koppu and its relatively slow movement means that it could produce very heavy rainfall.\u00a0 Serious flooding and numerous mudslides are possible across northern Luzon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Koppu continued to intensify on Friday and it maintained its steady course toward northern Luzon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Koppu was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 124.5\u00b0E which put it about 270 miles (435 km) east-northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Koppu was moving toward the west at 10 […]<\/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":[239,43,44,103,64,42,244,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}