Typhoon In-Fa continued to churn westward over the Western North Pacific Ocean east of the Northern Marianas on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 159.3\u00b0E which put the center about 940 miles (1515 km) east of Saipan.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the west-northwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 140 m.p.h. (225 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 165 m.p.h. (265 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 945 mb.<\/p>\n
An eyewall replacement cycle occurred in the core of Typhoon In-Fa on Tuesday.\u00a0 The original eye and eyewall disappeared by Tuesday evening.\u00a0 A new eye with a diameter of 40 miles (65 km) was 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 in the upper levels was nearly equal to the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure did not change much on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Typhoon In-Fa was very symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of In-Fa’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Typhoon In-Fa.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon In-Fa is 28.3.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 17.1 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 45.4. Typhoon In-Fa is similar in size to Hurricane Ian when Ian hit Southwest Florida in 2022.\u00a0 In-Fa is not quite as strong as Ian was.<\/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 intensify during the next 24 hours unless another eyewall replacement cycle occurs.<\/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 continue to move toward the Northern Marianas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon In-Fa continued to churn westward over the Western North Pacific Ocean east of the Northern Marianas on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 159.3\u00b0E which put the center about 940 miles (1515 km) east of Saipan.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward 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":[601,650,2558,181,105,284,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665"}],"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=25665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25666,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665\/revisions\/25666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}