Typhoon Koguma was spinning over the Western North Pacific Ocean east of Iwo To on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Koguma was located at latitude 24.9\u00b0N and longitude 148.0\u00b0E which put the center about 435 miles (700 km) east of Iwo To.\u00a0 Koguma was moving toward the northwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 944 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Koguma intensified on Saturday.\u00a0 Koguma was the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 23 miles (37 km) was at the center of Typhoon Koguma.\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 revolved around the center of Koguma’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Koguma generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Typhoon Koguma was fairly symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 65 miles (105 km) from the center of Koguma’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 150 miles (240 km) from the center of Typhoon Koguma.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Koguma is 25.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 19.9 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 45.0.\u00a0 Typhoon Koguma is similar in intensity in intensity to Hurricane Harvey when Harvey hit Texas in 2017.\u00a0 Koguma is larger than Harvey was.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Koguma will move into an environment that will become unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Koguma will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the upper level western winds in the middle latitudes.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will increase when Koguma moves under those upper level westerly winds.\u00a0 Typhoon Koguma will start to weaken when the vertical wind shear increases.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Koguma will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Koguma toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Koguma willmove away from Iwo To on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Koguma was spinning over the Western North Pacific Ocean east of Iwo To on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Koguma was located at latitude 24.9\u00b0N and longitude 148.0\u00b0E which put the center about 435 miles (700 km) east of Iwo To.\u00a0 Koguma was moving toward the northwest […]<\/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":[277,650,107,2510,4251,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511"}],"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=25511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25512,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511\/revisions\/25512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}