Typhoon Nida brought wind and rain to northern Luzon on Sunday as it continued to move toward Hong Kong on the coast of China.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Nida was located at latitude 20.4\u00b0N and longitude 118.3\u00b0E which put it about 340 miles (545 km) east-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Nida was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (27 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 Nida is 10.4.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 13.1 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 23.5.\u00a0 These indices suggest that Typhoon Nida will be capable of causing minor wind damage on a regional scale.<\/p>\n
The structure of Typhoon Nida changed significantly on Sunday.\u00a0 The primary rainband wrapped around the core of the circulation and a very large eye was created at the center.\u00a0 The diameter of the eye is approximately 50 miles (80 km).\u00a0 The strongest winds are occurring in the ring of thunderstorms that surrounds the eye.\u00a0 Other spiral bands of thunderstorms are rotating around the large eye.\u00a0 The thunderstorms were generating upper level divergence which pumped out mass and allowed the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nida is in an environment that would favor intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 Easterly winds are blowing in the upper levels, but there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The large size of the eye of Nida is the major factor inhibiting intensification.\u00a0 It takes more energy to increase the wind speed in a large typhoon than it does in a smaller storm.\u00a0 If the eye contracts, then Typhoon Nida could intensify more before it makes landfall.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Nida is steering the typhoon toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another day or so.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Nida will be very near Hong Kong in about 24 hours.<\/p>\n
As mentioned above, the large size of Typhoon Nida means that it will be capable of causing wind damage on a regional scale.\u00a0 In addition, Typhoon Nida will be capable of creating a significant storm surge when it moves into the coast of China.\u00a0 A large slow moving typhoon like Nida will also produce heavy rain and flooding as it moves inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Nida brought wind and rain to northern Luzon on Sunday as it continued to move toward Hong Kong on the coast of China.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Nida was located at latitude 20.4\u00b0N and longitude 118.3\u00b0E which put it about 340 miles (545 km) east-southeast of Hong Kong.\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":[442,43,127,103,42,96,444,63,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"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=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}