Typhoon Champi was approaching the southern Ryukyu Islands on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 20.6\u00b0N and longitude 125.7\u00b0E which put the center about 295 miles (475 km) south-southeast of Ishigakijima, Japan.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the west-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 940 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi weakened on Wednesday.\u00a0 Even though Champi weakened, it was still a very well organized typhoon.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 35 miles (55 km) was at the center of Champi\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the the center of Typhoon Champi.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Champi generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was less than the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure increased on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon Champi was large.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Champi\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 345 miles (555 km) from the center of Typhoon Champi.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Champi is 25.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 34.2 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 59.3.\u00a0 Typhoon Champi is similar in size to Hurricane Ivan when Ivan hit the northern Gulf Coast in 2004.\u00a0 Champi is stronger than Ivan was.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi will move through an environment that will be unfavorable 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 eastern side of an upper level trough that is near the east coast of China.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Champi’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase.\u00a0\u00a0 Champi will also move into a region of drier air on Thursday.\u00a0 Typhoon Champi is likely to weaken during the next 24 hours because of more vertical wind shear and drier air.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi will move around the western part of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean. The high pressure system will steer Champi toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Typhoon Champi will be near Ishigakijima in 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi will bring strong winds and heavy rain to the southern Ryukyu Islands.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi could also bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Champi was approaching the southern Ryukyu Islands on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 20.6\u00b0N and longitude 125.7\u00b0E which put the center about 295 miles (475 km) south-southeast of Ishigakijima, Japan.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the west-northwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[582,2531,650,1581,44,194,42,249,583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614"}],"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=25614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25615,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions\/25615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}