Typhoon Krathon brought strong winds and heavy rain to Taiwan on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Krathon was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0N and longitude 120.1\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.\u00a0 Krathon was moving toward the northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 965 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krathon was causing strong winds and dropping heavy rain over Taiwan on Wednesday night.\u00a0 The center of Krathon was just off the coast of southwest Taiwan near Kaohsiung.\u00a0 Typhoon Krathon was moving very slowly toward Taiwan.\u00a0 The slow forward motion of Krathon’s circulation meant it was causing prolonged periods of strong winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Krathon was weakening gradually as it slowly approached Taiwan, but Krathon was still a powerful typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 40 miles (65 km) from the center of Krathon’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 155 miles (250 km) from the center of Typhoon Krathon.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Krathon was 12.7.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 12.1 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 24.8.\u00a0 Typhoon Krathon was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Dolly when Dolly hit south Texas in 2008.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough over China will steer Typhoon Krathon slowly to the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Krathon will move inland over southwestern Taiwan.\u00a0 Krathon will continue to produce strong winds and heavy rain during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Very heavy rainfall will cause widespread flash floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Krathon brought strong winds and heavy rain to Taiwan on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Krathon was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0N and longitude 120.1\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.\u00a0 Krathon was moving toward the northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 […]<\/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":[178,650,1043,3763,42,3765,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292"}],"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=21292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21293,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions\/21293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}