Typhoon Gaemi battered Taiwan on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Gaemi was located at latitude 24.0\u00b0N and longitude 121.4\u00b0E which put the center about 100 miles (160 km) south of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 155 m.p.h. (250 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 928 mb.<\/p>\n
The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the existing eye and eyewall of Typhoon Gaemi as it approached the east coast of Taiwan.\u00a0 Concentric eyewalls formed in the core of Gaemi’s circulation.\u00a0 The diameter of the inner eye was 7 miles (11 km).\u00a0 The inner eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Gaemi.<\/p>\n
The inner eye of Typhoon Gaemi began to make a counterclockwise loop inside the outer eyewall as Gaemi neared the east coast of Taiwan.\u00a0 Mountains in Taiwan also deflected winds blowing around the western side of Typhoon Gaemi.\u00a0 The deflection of the winds by the mountains also contributed to the counterclockwise loop of the inner eye.\u00a0 The inner eye made landfall near Yilan City after it completed the counterclockwise loop.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon Gaemi was large.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Gaemi’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 315 miles (510 km) from the center of Typhoon Gaemi.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Gaemi was the equivalent of a major hurricane at the time of landfall.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) was 23.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 35.2 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 58.8.\u00a0 Typhoon Gaemi was as strong as Hurricane Katrina was when Katrina made landfall on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.\u00a0 Gaemi was larger than Katrina was when Katrina made landfall.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Gamei was producing strong winds in Taiwan.\u00a0 Gaemi was also dropping very heavy rain over parts of Taiwan.\u00a0 Prolonged heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in many locations.\u00a0 Typhoon Gaemi was also causing a storm surge of up to 13 feet (4 meters) along the coast of northern Taiwan where the wind was blowing water toward the coast.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Gaemi will move toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Gaemi will continue to produce strong winds and heavy rain in Taiwan for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 The center of Typhoon Gaemi will move over the Taiwan Strait in a few hours.\u00a0 Gaemi will make another landfall on the east coast of China in about 18 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Gaemi battered Taiwan on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Gaemi was located at latitude 24.0\u00b0N and longitude 121.4\u00b0E which put the center about 100 miles (160 km) south of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Gaemi was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was […]<\/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":[434,43,1042,650,1081,42,3646,435,3649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653"}],"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=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20654,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions\/20654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}