Typhoon Namtheun spun up quickly on Thursday and moved steadily toward Kyushu in southern Japan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Namtheun was located at latitude 26.6\u00b0N and longitude 130.8\u00b0E which put it about 335 miles (540 km) south of Kagoshima, Japan.\u00a0 Namtheun was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. (11 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 975 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Namtheun developed quickly from a low pressure system along a surface trough.\u00a0 Namtheun has a small but very well organized circulation.\u00a0 It has a tiny pinhole eye surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 Several other rainbands are spiraling around the ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass in all directions.\u00a0 The upper level divergence is slightly less to the west of the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Namtheun is in an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 Although there is a large upper level trough over eastern Asia which contains strong southwesterly winds, Typhoon Namtheun developed east of those strong winds.\u00a0 It is in an area where the upper level winds are weaker and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Namtheun is likely to intensify more during the next day or two.\u00a0 However, Namtheun’s small circulation means that it will respond very rapidly to positive or negative changes in its surrounding environment.<\/p>\n
A ridge to the east of Namtheun is steering the typhoon toward the north and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Namtheun could be very near the southern tip of Kyushu within 48 hours.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of southern Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Namtheun spun up quickly on Thursday and moved steadily toward Kyushu in southern Japan.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Namtheun was located at latitude 26.6\u00b0N and longitude 130.8\u00b0E which put it about 335 miles (540 km) south of Kagoshima, Japan.\u00a0 Namtheun was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[501,43,44,46,130,500,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924"}],"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=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}