Typhoon Kalmaegi struck central Vietnam on early on Thursday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Thursday the center of Typhoon Kalmaegi was located at latitude 13.6\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0E which put the center about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Quy Nohn, Vietnam.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 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 951 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall on the coast of central Vietnam near Song Cau early on Thursday.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was the equivalent of a major hurricane at the time of landfall.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h) at the time of landfall.<\/p>\n
At the time of landfall winds to typhoon force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Kalmaegi’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 160 miles (260 km) from the center center of Typhoon Kalmaegi.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Kalmaegi at the time of landfall was 23.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 18.4 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 42.0.\u00a0 Typhoon Kalmaegi was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Milton when Milton hit Florida in 2024.<\/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 during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Kalmaegi will move inland over central Vietnam during the next few hours.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will then move near the border between Laos and Cambodia.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kalmaegi will continue to bring strong winds and heavy rain to central Vietnam during the next few hours.\u00a0 Heavy rain will cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Kalmaegi will weaken steadily as it moves farther inland over Southeast Asia.\u00a0 Kalmaegi will also drop heavy rain over southern Laos, Cambodia, and northern Thailand.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Fung-wong continued to strengthen gradually east of Yap.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Fung-wong was located at latitude 9.9\u00b0N and longitude 140.62E which put the center about 170 miles (280 km) east of Yap.\u00a0 Fung-wong was moving toward the west-northwest at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Fung-wong is forecast to intensify to a typhoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Kalmaegi struck central Vietnam on early on Thursday.\u00a0 At 4:00 a.m. EST on Thursday the center of Typhoon Kalmaegi was located at latitude 13.6\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0E which put the center about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Quy Nohn, Vietnam.\u00a0 Kalmaegi was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[888,608,4024,650,1811,173,4020,4022,174,4023,4014,63,889,911,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555"}],"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=23555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23557,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555\/revisions\/23557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}