Typhoon In-Fa rapidly intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Monday over the Western North Pacific Ocean east of the Northern Marianas.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 14.1\u00b0N and longitude 162.6\u00b0E which put the center about 1135 miles (1830 km) east of Saipan.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the west-northwest at 4 m.p.h. (6 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 946 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa rapidly intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Monday.\u00a0 A small circular eye with a diameter of 8 miles (13 km) formed at the center of In-Fa’s circulation.\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 were revolving around the center of Typhoon In-Fa.\u00a0 Storms near the center of In-Fa generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon In-Fa was small.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of In-Fa’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) from the center of Typhoon In-Fa.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon In-Fa is 25.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 9.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 34.7.\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Harvey when Harvey hit Texas in 2017.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 In-Fa will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa could continue to 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, then an eyewall replacement cycle could cause In-Fa to weaken.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa will move around the southern part of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer In-Fa toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon In-Fa will move toward the Northern Marianas.<\/p>\n
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Typhoon In-Fa rapidly intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane on Monday over the Western North Pacific Ocean east of the Northern Marianas.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 14.1\u00b0N and longitude 162.6\u00b0E which put the center about 1135 miles (1830 km) east of Saipan.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[601,650,2558,181,105,284,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653"}],"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=25653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25654,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions\/25654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}