Typhoon Champi brought wind and rain to Guam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 144.3\u00b0E which put the center about 40 miles (65 km) south of Guam.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 185 m.p.h. (295 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 934 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Warnings are in effect for Guam and Rota,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for Tinian and Saipan.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The core of Typhoon Champi where the strongest winds are occurring passed just to the south of Guam on Saturday.\u00a0 Bands in the northern side of Champi’s circulation brought strong winds and rain to Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.<\/p>\n A weather station at the Guam International Airport (PGUM) reported a sustained wind speed of 47 m.p.h. (76 km\/h) and a wind gust of 72 m.p.h. (116 km\/h).<\/p>\n A weather station at Andersen Air Force Base (PGUA) reported a sustained wind speed 0f 46 m.p.h. (74 km\/h) and a wind gust of 59 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).<\/p>\n Typhoon Champi was the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of Champi’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 140 miles (225 km) from the center of Typhoon Champi.<\/p>\n The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Champi is 31.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 18.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 50.2.\u00a0 Typhoon Champi is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Laura when Laura hit Southwest Louisiana in 2020.<\/p>\n Typhoon Champi 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 Champi toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Champi will move away from Guam on Sunday.<\/p>\n Typhoon Champi will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Champi 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 ridge that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Champi\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Typhoon Champi could intensify during the next 24 hours unless the inner end of a rainband wraps around the existing eye and eyewall.\u00a0 If concentric eyewalls form and an eyewall replacement cycle occurs, Champi will weaken, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Typhoon Champi brought wind and rain to Guam on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 144.3\u00b0E which put the center about 40 miles (65 km) south of Guam.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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":[582,2531,45,650,104,105,106,249,583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578"}],"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=25578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25579,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions\/25579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}