Typhoon Ragasa made landfall on the coast of southern China east of Yangjiang on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Ragasa was located at latitude 21.9\u00b0N and longitude 110.5\u00b0E which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Yangjiang, China.\u00a0 Ragasa was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 96 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Typhoon Ragasa made landfall on the coast of southern China east of Yangjiang on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 Ragasa was a large and powerful typhoon at the time of landfall.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of Ragasa\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 190 miles (305 km) from the center of Typhoon Ragasa.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Ragasa was 13.9.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 20.8 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 34.7.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Ragasa will move around the southern side of a high pressure system over China.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Ragasa toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Ragasa will move westward near the coast of southern China.\u00a0 Ragasa will move over northern Vietnam on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Ragasa will bring strong winds and heavy rain to Guangxi, western Guangdong, and northern Hainan.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause floods in some locations.\u00a0 Typhoon Ragasa could cause a storm surge of up to 10 feet (3 meters) along portions of the coast.\u00a0 Ragasa could also drop heavy rain on parts of northern Vietnam and northern Laos.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Bualoi was strengthening east of the Philippines and Tropical Storm Neoguri was spinning far to the east of Japan.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Bualoi was located at latitude 10.6\u00b0N and longitude 130.5\u00b0E which put the center about 375 miles (605 km) east-southeast of Tacloban, Philippines.\u00a0 Bualoi was moving toward the west-northwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Neoguri was located at latitude 31.2\u00b0N and longitude 156.8\u00b0E which put the center about 1060 miles (1710 km) east-southeast of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Neoguri was moving toward the east-northeast at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 980 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Ragasa made landfall on the coast of southern China east of Yangjiang on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Ragasa was located at latitude 21.9\u00b0N and longitude 110.5\u00b0E which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Yangjiang, China.\u00a0 Ragasa was moving toward the west at […]<\/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":[239,242,563,1765,43,1610,3277,1536,650,44,173,1750,64,3980,1866,474,1764,1749,3981,63,240,243,564,2059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185"}],"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=23185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23186,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23185\/revisions\/23186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}