Former Tropical Storm Kong-rey strengthened to a typhoon over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Taiwan on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Kong-rey was located at latitude 17.4\u00b0N and longitude 127.6\u00b0E which put the center about 690 miles (1115 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Kong-rey was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 979 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Kong-rey strengthened to a typhoon on Monday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of Kong-rey’s circulation.\u00a0 A circular eye was starting to form at the center of Typhoon Kong-rey.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms surrounded the developing eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Kong-rey’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Kong-rey generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The size of the circulation around Typhoon Kong-rey increased as Kong-rey strengthened.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 105 miles (165 km) on the south side of Kong-rey’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 230 miles (370 km) from the center of Typhoon Kong-rey.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kong-rey will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Kong-rey will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Kong-rey’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Typhoon Kong-rey will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Kong-rey could strengthen to the equivalent of a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kong-rey will move around the southern part of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Kong-rey toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Kong-rey will move closer to Taiwan.\u00a0 Kong-rey could reach Taiwan later this week.\u00a0 Typhoon Kong-rey could be the equivalent of a major hurricane when it reaches Taiwan,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Kong-rey strengthened to a typhoon over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Taiwan on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Kong-rey was located at latitude 17.4\u00b0N and longitude 127.6\u00b0E which put the center about 690 miles (1115 km) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Kong-rey 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":[220,1291,1081,42,1297,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21472"}],"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=21472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21475,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21472\/revisions\/21475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}