Powerful Typhoon Malakas moved steadily closer to Kyushu on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Malakas was centered at latitude 29.7\u00b0N and longitude 127.9\u00b0E which put it about 210 miles (340 km) southwest of Kagoshima, Japan.\u00a0 Malakas was moving toward the east-northeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 948 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Typhoon Malakas remains well organized and it is taking on the typical structure of a strong tropical cyclone that is starting to recurve.\u00a0 The size of the eye increased during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 The eye is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms which is thinner south of the eye.\u00a0 There are several strong rainbands, but they are primarily in the northern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The circulation is beginning to pull drier air around the southern side of Malakas which is why the rainbands in that part of the typhoon are weaker.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Typhoon Malakas are generating upper level divergence that is pumping out mass toward the northeast.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Malakas is moving through an environment that should allow it to maintain its intensity during the next few hours.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough to the west of Japan is generating southwesterly winds which are blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 However, the vertical wind shear is moderate enough to allow Typhoon Malakas to maintain its intensity in the short term.\u00a0 When Malakas moves farther to the northeast, it will move into a region where where upper level winds are stronger and the vertical wind shear will increase.\u00a0 More vertical wind shear and the interaction of the circulation with Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu will cause Malakas to weaken.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will continue to steer Typhoon Malakas toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Malakas will be near southwest Kyushu in about 12 hours.\u00a0 It will be near Shikoku in 20 hours and is could be near Honshu in 30 hours.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Malakas will bring strong winds and heavy rain to southwestern Kyushu.\u00a0 It is likely to still be a typhoon when it passes near the coast of Shikoku.\u00a0 Malakas could be a tropical storm when it passes south of Kyoto and when it moves near Tokyo in a couple of days.\u00a0 Malakas could bring wind and heavy rain to the coastal portions of Honshu later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Powerful Typhoon Malakas moved steadily closer to Kyushu on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Malakas was centered at latitude 29.7\u00b0N and longitude 127.9\u00b0E which put it about 210 miles (340 km) southwest of Kagoshima, Japan.\u00a0 Malakas was moving toward the east-northeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 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":[166,461,44,133,523,474,521,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}