Typhoon Kalmaegi intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane east of Vietnam on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Kalmaegi was located at latitude 13.4\u00b0N and longitude 113.6\u00b0E which put the center about 335 miles (540 km) east-southeast of Quy Nohn, Vietnam.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h. (33 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 145 m.p.h. (235 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 960 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kalmaegi continued to strengthen on Wednesday as it moved over the South China Sea east of Vietnam.\u00a0 A small circular eye was at the center of Kalmaegi\u2019s 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 Typhoon Kalmaegi.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Kalmaegi 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 circulation around Typhoon Kalmaegi was relatively small. Winds to typhoon force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of Kalmaegi\u2019s circulation. Winds to tropical storm force extended out 115 miles (185 km) from the center of Typhoon Kalmaegi.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Kalmaegi was 20.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 12.5 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 33.1.\u00a0 Typhoon Kalmaegi was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Delta when Delta hit Louisiana in 2020.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kalmaegi will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 18 hours.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge that is over China.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Kalmaegi\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear. The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification but the wind shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 There is drier air to the north of Kalmaegi.\u00a0 Typhoon Kalmaegi could intensify during the next 18 hours if the drier air remains north of the typhoon.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kalmaegi will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over China.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Kalmaegi toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Kalmaegi will reach the coast of central Vietnam in 18 hours.<\/p>\n
The center of Typhoon Kalmaegi is likely to make landfall on the coast of Vietnam near Quy Nohn.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will bring strong winds and heavy rain to central Vietnam.\u00a0 Heavy rain will cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Typhoon Kalmaegi could also cause a storm surge of up to 10 feet (3 meters) along parts of the coast.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kalmaegi will also drop heavy rain over southern Laos, Cambodia, and northern Thailand.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, former Tropical Depression 32W strengthened to Tropical Storm Fung-wong east of Yap.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Fung-wong was located at latitude 9.7\u00b0N and longitude 140.6\u00b0E which put the center about 190 miles (305 km) east of Yap.\u00a0 Fung-wong was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 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 996 mb.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Fung-wong is forecast to intensify to a typhoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Kalmaegi intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane east of Vietnam on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Kalmaegi was located at latitude 13.4\u00b0N and longitude 113.6\u00b0E which put the center about 335 miles (540 km) east-southeast of Quy Nohn, Vietnam.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the west-northwest 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":[888,910,608,1826,650,4021,173,4020,174,1825,4014,63,889,911,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551"}],"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=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23552,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions\/23552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}