Typhoon Champi intensified rapidly on Sunday and it reached the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 140.3\u00b0E which put it about 325 miles (525 km) south-southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the north-northeast at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 145 m.p.h. (235 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 175 m.p.h. (280 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 924 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Typhoon Champi is very well organized.\u00a0 It has a well defined eye and there could be a rainband wrapping around the center to create concentric eyewalls.\u00a0 Multiple spiral bands are revolving around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out 40 miles (65 km) from the center.\u00a0 Well developed upper level divergence is pumping out mass in all directions.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The winds in the upper levels are relatively light and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Champi will remain in a favorable environment for another 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Eyewall replacement cycles could cause fluctuations in intensity during that period.\u00a0 When it moves north of latitude 25\u00b0N, Champi will encounter the upper level westerly winds in the middle latitudes which will cause significant vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Champi will weaken as the wind shear increases.<\/p>\n
Champi is moving slowly northward as it curves around the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 It will continue to move northward for another day or two.\u00a0 When it begins to be affected by the upper level westerly winds, Champi will accelerate toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Champi will approach Iwo To in 48 to 60 hours.\u00a0 Champi will be a large, strong typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Champi intensified rapidly on Sunday and it reached the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 140.3\u00b0E which put it about 325 miles (525 km) south-southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward […]<\/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":[242,107,44,249,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}