Typhoon Malakas made the expected northeast turn toward Japan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Malakas was located at latitude 27.1\u00b0N and longitude 123.8\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (425 km) west of Okinawa.\u00a0 Malakas was moving toward the northeast at 11 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Typhoon Malakas is slowly changing as it moves toward the north and encounters a little more wind shear.\u00a0 Malakas still has an eye, but the thunderstorms around the eyewall are not strong as they were 24 hours ago and a few small breaks may be developing in the eyewall.\u00a0 There are still a number of rainbands spiraling around the typhoon.\u00a0 The core of Typhoon Malakas is still generating upper level divergence.\u00a0 Overall, Malakas is still a well organized, if weaker, typhoon.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Malakas has moved around the western end of a subtropical ridge and it has turned toward the northeast.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Japan will steer Malakas toward the northeast at a faster speed on Sunday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Malakas will approach southwestern Kyushu in about 36 hours,\u00a0 It will bring strong wind and heavy rain to southwestern Japan in about two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Malakas made the expected northeast turn toward Japan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Malakas was located at latitude 27.1\u00b0N and longitude 123.8\u00b0E which put it about 265 miles (425 km) west of Okinawa.\u00a0 Malakas was moving toward the northeast at 11 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[43,44,133,46,130,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"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=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}