Typhoon In-Fa stalled over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Iwo To on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 22.7\u00b0N and longitude 144.1\u00b0E which put the center about 235 miles (380 km) southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the east-southeast at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 965 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa weakened gradually on Saturday while it stalled southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 40 miles (65 km) was still present at the center of In-Fa\u2019s 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 less than\u00a0 the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure increased on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds around Typhoon In-Fa was still relatively symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 80 miles (130 km) from the center of In-Fa\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 150 miles (240 km) from the center of Typhoon In-Fa.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon In-Fa is 19.2.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 23.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 42.8.\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Gustav when Gustav hit Louisiana in 2008.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 In-Fa will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level trough that is south of Japan.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of In-Fa’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase.\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa is likely to continue to weaken gradually on Sunday because of more vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
A high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Japan will start to steer Typhoon In-Fa toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track,\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa will move south of Iwo To on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon In-Fa stalled over the Western North Pacific Ocean southeast of Iwo To on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 22.7\u00b0N and longitude 144.1\u00b0E which put the center about 235 miles (380 km) southeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the east-southeast at 4 […]<\/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":[601,650,2558,107,284,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694"}],"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=25694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25695,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694\/revisions\/25695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}