Typhoon Man-yi strengthened to the equivalent of a major hurricane as it moved toward the Philippines on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Typhoon Man-yi was located at latitude 12.3\u00b0N and longitude 127.2\u00b0E which put the center about 490 miles (790 km) east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Man-yi was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 952 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Man-yi intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Friday.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 25 miles (40 km) was at the center of Man-yi’s circulation.\u00a0 The 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 center of Man-yi’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Man-yi generated strong upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon in all directions.\u00a0 The removal of large quantities of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease rapidly.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon Man-yi was very symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of Man-yi’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 125 miles (200 km) from the center of Typhoon Man-yi.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Man-yi was 23.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 10.3 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 33.9.\u00a0 Typhoon Man-yi was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Dennis when Dennis hit Northwest Florida in 2005.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Man-yi will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Man-yi will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Man-yi is likely to continue to intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Man-yi will move around the southern side of a high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Man-yi toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Man-yi will reach southeastern Luzon in less than 18 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Man-yi will bring very strong winds and heavy rain to Luzon.\u00a0 Heavy rain will cause flash floods and mudslides.\u00a0 Man-yi could also cause a storm surge of up to 13 feet (4 meters) along the coast of Luzon.\u00a0 Luzon has already been hit by a series of in recent weeks.\u00a0 Typhoon Man-yi is capable of causing regional major damage.\u00a0 Man-yi will seriously set back efforts to recover from the previous typhoons.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Usagi was bringing wind and rain to Taiwan.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Usagi was located at latitude 22.5\u00b0N and longitude 120.3\u00b0E which put the center about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.\u00a0 Usagi was moving toward the north-northeast at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Man-yi strengthened to the equivalent of a major hurricane as it moved toward the Philippines on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Typhoon Man-yi was located at latitude 12.3\u00b0N and longitude 127.2\u00b0E which put the center about 490 miles (790 km) east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Man-yi was moving toward the […]<\/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":[242,277,650,1043,103,1376,604,64,42,1380,1379,1381,243,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21632"}],"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=21632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21633,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21632\/revisions\/21633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}