Typhoon In-Fa passed west of Iwo To on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 24.8\u00b0N and longitude 138.4\u00b0E which put the center about 185 miles (295 km) west of Iwo To.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 972 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa maintained its intensity on Tuesday as it passed west of Iwo To.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 20 miles (32 km) was 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 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 around Typhoon In-Fa was still relatively symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 50 miles (80 km) from the center of In-Fa\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 130 miles (210 km) from the center of Typhoon In-Fa.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon In-Fa is 16.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 16.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 33.2. Typhoon In-Fa is similar in intensity to Hurricane Isaias when Isaias hit Florida in 2023.\u00a0 In-Fa is not as large as Iasais was.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification of a typhoon during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 In-Fa will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 26\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level trough that is over Japan.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce west-southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of In-Fa\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase.\u00a0 Typhoon In-Fa is likely to weaken gradually during the next 24 hours because of more vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough over Japan will steer Typhoon In-Fa toward the northeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Typhoon In-Fa will pass southeast of Japan.<\/p>\n
Typhoon In-Fa will move over cooler Sea Surface Temperatures during the next several days.\u00a0 The combination of cooler water and more vertical wind shear will cause Typhoon In-Fa to make a transition to a strong extratropical cyclone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon In-Fa passed west of Iwo To on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon In-Fa was located at latitude 24.8\u00b0N and longitude 138.4\u00b0E which put the center about 185 miles (295 km) west of Iwo To.\u00a0 In-Fa was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[601,650,2558,107,44,284,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715"}],"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=25715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25716,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions\/25716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}