The center of Typhoon In-Fa passed north of Yap on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 136.0\u00b0E which put it about 285 miles (465 km) north-northwest of Yap.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the west-northwest at 19 m.p.h. (31 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 944 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Typhoon In-Fa deteriorated slightly on Saturday, but it remains the equivalent of a major hurricane.\u00a0 Fewer thunderstorms formed in the northwestern quadrant of the circulation and there are indications that a gap may have opened on the northwestern side of the eyewall.\u00a0 It is possible that some drier air could have been pulled into that part of the circulation.\u00a0 However, an eye may still exist at the center of circulation and there are multiple bands around the eastern and southern sides of the typhoon.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds over the top of the circulation are light and there is not much vertical wind shear over the core of the typhoon.\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa could maintain its intensity or weaken slowly on Sunday.\u00a0 When it moves farther north, it will encounter stronger southwesterly winds which will increase the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 When the wind shear increases, the rate of weakening will increase.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Typhoon In-Fa toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another day or so.\u00a0 In-Fa could reach the western end of the ridge and turn northward on Monday.\u00a0 In 36 to 48 hours the southwesterly upper level winds will start to push the typhoon toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon In-Fa could be near Iwo To in about four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The center of Typhoon In-Fa passed north of Yap on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 136.0\u00b0E which put it about 285 miles (465 km) north-northwest of Yap.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the west-northwest at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[277,286,107,44,284,278,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"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=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}