Typhoon Champi brought wind and rain to the southern Ryukyu Islands and to northeastern Taiwan on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 25.3\u00b0N and longitude 122.6\u00b0E which put the center about 75 miles (120 km) east of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the north-northwest at 16 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 145 m.p.h. (235 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 949 mb.<\/p>\n
A weather station on Ishigakijima Island reported a sustained wind speed of 78 m.p.h. (125 km\/h).\u00a0 The weather station also reported 4.94 inches (154.0 mm) of rain.<\/p>\n
A weather station in Ohara, Japan reported a sustained wind speed of 75 m.p.h. (121 km\/h).<\/p>\n
A weather station on Yonagunijima Island reported a sustained wind speed of 66 m.p.h. (107 km\/h).\u00a0 The weather station also reported 8.33 inches (211.5 mm) of rain.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi was the equivalent of a major hurricane on Friday morning.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 85 miles (135 km) from the center of Champi’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 250 miles (400 km) from the center of Typhoon Champi.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Champi was 20.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 31.8 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 52.4.\u00a0 Typhoon Champi was similar in intensity to Hurricane Irma when Irma hit south Florida in 2017.\u00a0 Champi is larger than Irma was.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Champi 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 Champi toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon Champi will remain east of China.<\/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 26\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 strong southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Champi\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Champi will also continue to move through a mass of drier air.\u00a0 Typhoon Champi is likely to weaken steadily during the next 24 hours because of the effects of strong vertical wind shear and drier air.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression 30W formed northwest of Kwajalein.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Depression 30W was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 166.3\u00b0E which put the center about 185 miles (300 km) northwest of Kwajalein.\u00a0 The tropical depression moving toward the northwest at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Champi brought wind and rain to the southern Ryukyu Islands and to northeastern Taiwan on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Champi was located at latitude 25.3\u00b0N and longitude 122.6\u00b0E which put the center about 75 miles (120 km) east of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Champi was moving toward the north-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":[582,2531,650,1581,44,4244,4273,1081,42,249,583,4274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628"}],"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=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25629,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions\/25629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}