Typhoon Koppu intensified rapidly during the past 12 hours and it is making landfall near Baler in northern Luzon as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Koppu was located at latitude 16.0\u00b0N and longitude 122.9\u00b0E which put it about 170 miles (275 km) east-northeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Koppu was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 185 m.p.h. (295 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 918 mb.\u00a0 Typhoon Koppu has a Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) of 31.6, a Hurricane Size Index (HSI) of 17.5 and a Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) of 49.1, which means it is capable of producing regional significant wind damage.\u00a0 In addition the slow movement of Koppu means it will produce very heavy rainfall which will create the potential for serious flooding and landslides.<\/p>\n
Koppu will continue to move toward the west-northwest for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Then it will reach the western end of the subtropical ridge that has been steering it and start to move toward the north.\u00a0 Although Typhoon Koppu will weaken as it moves across northern Luzon, it will be over that area for 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Koppu has the potential to cause widespread damage due to winds, floods and landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Koppu intensified rapidly during the past 12 hours and it is making landfall near Baler in northern Luzon as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Koppu was located at latitude 16.0\u00b0N and longitude 122.9\u00b0E which put it about 170 […]<\/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":[239,43,44,103,46,245,42,244,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"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=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}