Typhoon Dolphin moved west of Wake Island on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 18.6\u00b0N and longitude 161.5\u00b0E which put the center about 315 miles (510 km) west-southwest of Wake Island.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 155 m.p.h. (250 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 190 m.p.h. (305 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 924 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Dolphin appeared to go through another eyewall replacement cycle.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 30 miles (50 km) was present at the center of Dolphin’s circulation on Thursday evening.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms revolved around the core of Typhoon Dolphin.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Dolphin generated strong upper level divergence that pumped large amounts of mass from the typhoon.\u00a0 The removal of large amounts of mass in the upper levels was nearly equal to the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure\u00a0 did not change much on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The completion of another eyewall replacement cycle increased the size of the circulation around Typhoon Dolphin.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of Dolphin\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 175 miles (280 km) from the center of Typhoon Dolphin.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Dolphin is 33.3.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 21.0 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 54.3.\u00a0 Typhoon Dolphin is similar in intensity to Hurricane Ian when Ian hit Southwest Florida in 2022.\u00a0 Typhoon Dolphin is larger than Ian was.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Dolphin will move through an environment favorable for a powerful typhoon during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Dolphin will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Dolphin is likely to maintain its intensity on Friday.\u00a0 Eyewall replacement cycles are likely to cause fluctuation in the intensity of Typhoon Dolphin during the next few days.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Dolphin will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Dolphin toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Dolphin will move toward Iwo To.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Dolphin moved west of Wake Island on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 18.6\u00b0N and longitude 161.5\u00b0E which put the center about 315 miles (510 km) west-southwest of Wake Island.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[476,2240,650,107,4185,80,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24840"}],"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=24840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24841,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24840\/revisions\/24841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}