Former Tropical Storm Podul strengthened to a typhoon over the Western North Pacific Ocean east-southeast of Taiwan on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Podul was located at latitude 20.8\u00b0N and longitude 128.6\u00b0E which put the center about 510 miles (825 km) east-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Podul was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 984 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon Podul became more symmetrical on Monday.\u00a0 A circular eye appeared at the center of Podul’s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a broken ring of thunderstorms.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in that broken ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Typhoon Podul.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Podul 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 strongest winds were occurring in the eastern side of Typhoon Podul.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 35 miles (55 km) in the eastern side of Podul’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Typhoon Podul.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Podul will move through an environment that will be somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Podul will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, an upper level ridge over eastern China and Japan will produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Podul’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Typhoon Podul could intensify during the next 24 hours if the wind shear does not get any stronger.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Podul will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is south of Japan.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Podul toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Podul will approach Taiwan in 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Podul will bring strong winds and heavy rain to Taiwan.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Podul strengthened to a typhoon over the Western North Pacific Ocean east-southeast of Taiwan on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Podul was located at latitude 20.8\u00b0N and longitude 128.6\u00b0E which put the center about 510 miles (825 km) east-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Podul 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":[514,1614,1081,42,3967,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845"}],"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=22845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22846,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions\/22846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}