Typhoon Hagupit intensified rapidly on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Hagupit was located at latitude 7.9\u00b0N and longitude 139.5\u00b0E which put it about 190 miles southeast of Yap and about 1330 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Hagupit was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed had increased to 105 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 130 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Hagupit is in an environment favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) and the upper level winds remain light.\u00a0 The upper level outflow is well developed and it continues to pump out mass and allow the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 Hagupit is likely to continue to intensify on Wednesday and it could reach Super Typhoon intensity in several days.<\/p>\n
Hagupit is being steered toward the west-northwest by a subtropical ridge located to its north.\u00a0 On this track the center of Hagupit will pass just south of Yap in a few hours.\u00a0 An upper level trough in the westerly flow near Japan will weaken the subtropical ridge and Hagupit is likely to move more slowly in two or three days.\u00a0 The winds at the steering level will be weak in three or four days and the longer term track of Hagupit is more uncertain.\u00a0 There is a possibility that it could be steered westward toward the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Hagupit intensified rapidly on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Hagupit was located at latitude 7.9\u00b0N and longitude 139.5\u00b0E which put it about 190 miles southeast of Yap and about 1330 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Hagupit was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}