Typhoon Surigae intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Saturday night as it moved over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Surigae was located at latitude 25.7\u00b0N and longitude 128.6\u00b0E which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Surigae was moving toward the northeast at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 952 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Surigae intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Saturday night.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 20 miles (32 km) was at the center of Surigae’s 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 Surigae.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Surigae 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 distribution of wind speed around Typhoon Surigae became more symmetrical when Surigae intensified.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of Surigae’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) from the center of Typhoon Surigae.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Surigae is 22.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 9.2 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 31.3.\u00a0 Typhoon Surigae is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Zeta when Zeta hit Louisiana in 2020.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Surigae will move through an environment that will be somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Surigae 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 trough that is northwest of Japan.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Surigae’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Typhoon Surigae could continue to intensify Sunday.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will increase on Monday when Surigae moves closer to the upper level westerly winds in the middle latitudes.\u00a0 Typhoon Surigae will start to weaken when the vertical wind shear increases.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Surigae will move around the western end of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Surigae toward the northeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Surigae will move away Okinawa on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Surigae will continue to bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to the Ryukyu Islands including Okinawa on Sunday.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 The strong winds and rain will end gradually as Surigae moves away from the Ryukyu Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Surigae intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Saturday night as it moved over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Surigae was located at latitude 25.7\u00b0N and longitude 128.6\u00b0E which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) southeast of […]<\/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":[242,650,44,46,194,2474,2476,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25347"}],"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=25347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25348,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25347\/revisions\/25348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}