Tropical Storm Nepartak intensified into a typhoon on Monday as it moved west of Guam.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Nepartak was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 136.0\u00b0E which put it about 870 miles (1400 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Nepartak was moving toward the west-northwest at 20 m.p.h. (32 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 974 mb.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Nepartak was 10.4.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 3.7 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 14.1.<\/p>\n
The structure of Typhoon Nepartak improved on Monday.\u00a0 A circular area of strong thunderstorms developed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 Those thunderstorms generated upper level divergence that pumped out mass in all directions, which allowed the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 Several other bands of thunderstorms spiraled around the core of Nepartak.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nepartak is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 31\u00b0C.\u00a0 Nepartak moved into an area where the upper level winds were weaker and the vertical wind shear was reduced.\u00a0 The combination of very warm water and reduced shear allowed Nepartak to organize and strengthen into a typhoon.\u00a0 It is expected to remain in an environment favorable for intensification, and Nepartak will grow into a stronger typhoon during the next several days.<\/p>\n
A ridge of high pressure northeast of Nepartak is steering the typhoon toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Nepartak could be approaching the southernmost islands of Japan and Taiwan in 48 to 60 hours.\u00a0 It could be a very strong typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nepartak intensified into a typhoon on Monday as it moved west of Guam.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Nepartak was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 136.0\u00b0E which put it about 870 miles (1400 km) southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Nepartak was moving toward the west-northwest at 20 m.p.h. (32 […]<\/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":[406,43,45,44,130,42,412,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563"}],"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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}