Former Tropical Storm Ampil strengthened to a typhoon south of Japan on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Ampil was located at latitude 28.0\u00b0N and longitude 141.1\u00b0E which put the center about 540 miles (870 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the north-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 974 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Ampil strengthened to a typhoon south of Japan on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 A small circular eye formed at the center of Typhoon Ampil’s circulation.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Typhoon Ampil.\u00a0 Storms near the center generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon.<\/p>\n
Winds to typhoon force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Ampil’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 185 miles (295 km) from the center of Typhoon Ampil.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Ampil will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Ampil will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through an area where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Ampil will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Ampil could intensify rapidly at times.\u00a0 Typhoon Ampil could strengthen to the equivalent of a major hurricane within 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Ampil will move around the western side of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Ampil toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Ampil will be near the coast of central Honshu in 48 hours.<\/p>\n
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Former Tropical Storm Ampil strengthened to a typhoon south of Japan on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Ampil was located at latitude 28.0\u00b0N and longitude 141.1\u00b0E which put the center about 540 miles (870 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Ampil was moving toward the north-northeast at 9 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[739,1091,461,44,474,3681,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833"}],"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=20833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20834,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions\/20834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}