Former Tropical Storm Wipha intensified to a typhoon near Hong Kong on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Wipha was located at latitude 21.6\u00b0N and longitude 113.9\u00b0E which put the center about 55 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Wipha was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 970 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Wipha intensified to a typhoon on Saturday night near Hong Kong.\u00a0 The center of Typhoon Wipha was still over water just to the south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped most of the way around the center of Wipha\u2019s circulation. Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the southern and eastern parts of Typhoon Wipha. Bands in the northern part of Wipha’s circulation\u00a0 consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Wipha generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the southwest of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The strongest winds were occurring in the southern side of Typhoon Wipha.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 30 miles (50 km) in the southern half of Wipha’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 155 miles (250 km from the center of Typhoon Wipha.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Wipha will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 hours . Wipha will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southeastern side of an upper level ridge that is over China.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Wipha\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification but the wind shear may be enough to prevent intensification. Typhoon Wipha could intensify a little more during the next 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Wipha will move around the southern part of a high pressure system over eastern China.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Wipha toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Wipha will pass just south of Hong Kong during the next few hours.\u00a0 The center of Wipha’s circulation will also pass just south of Macau.\u00a0 The center of Typhoon Wipha could be near Yangjiang in 18 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Wipha will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to Hong Kong.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods and mudslides.\u00a0 Wipha will also bring strong winds and heavy rain to southern Guangdong including Macau.\u00a0 Typhoon Wipha will produce strong wins and heavy rain in southern Guangxi and in Hainan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Wipha intensified to a typhoon near Hong Kong on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Wipha was located at latitude 21.6\u00b0N and longitude 113.9\u00b0E which put the center about 55 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Wipha was moving toward the west at 15 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":[459,43,1610,3277,1536,127,790,3942,1562,460,2059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661"}],"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=22661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22662,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions\/22662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}