Typhoon Choi-wan intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane as it moved east-southeast of Iwo To on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Choi-wan was located at latitude 22.5\u00b0N and longitude 147.1\u00b0E which put the center about 410 miles (665 km) east-southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Choi-wan was moving toward the north-northeast at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 942 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Choi-wan intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Saturday.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 20 miles (32 km) was at the center of Choi-wan’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 core of Typhoon Choi-wan.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Choi-wan 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 Choi-wan was large.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 90 miles (145 km) from the center of Choi-wan’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 355 miles (575 km) from the center of Typhoon Choi-wan.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Choi-wan is 23.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 28.8 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 52.4.\u00a0 Typhoon Choi-wan is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Wilma when Wilma hit South Florida in 2005.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Choi-wan will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Choi-wan Choi-wan will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Choi-wan is likely to continue to\u00a0 intensify during the next 24 hours unless an eyewall replacement cycle occurs.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Choi-wan 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 Choi-wan toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Choi-wan will pass east of Iwo To on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Choi-wan intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane as it moved east-southeast of Iwo To on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Choi-wan was located at latitude 22.5\u00b0N and longitude 147.1\u00b0E which put the center about 410 miles (665 km) east-southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Choi-wan was moving toward […]<\/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":[563,2502,650,107,4242,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409"}],"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=25409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25410,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions\/25410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}