Typhoon Malakas is bringing wind and rain to coastal areas of Shikoku and Honshu.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Malakas was located near latitude 33.4\u00b0N and longitude 134.7\u00b0W which put it about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Malakas was moving toward the northeast at 25 m.p.h. (40 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 979 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Typhoon Malakas is starting the transition from a tropical cyclone to an extratropical cyclone.\u00a0 It retains an eye, but the thunderstorms in the southern part of the eyewall are thinning.\u00a0 Most of the other thunderstorms are in rainbands north of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Cooler, drier air is wrapping around the southern side of the circulation.\u00a0 The strongest winds are occurring over the water near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Heavy rain is falling over eastern Shikoku and southwestern Honshu near Osaka and Nagoya.<\/p>\n
Although Typhoon Malakas is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C, it will continue to weaken as it makes the transition to an extratropical cyclone.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Japan is producing southwesterly winds which are blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Also, almost half of the circulation is moving over land and the center will move over coastal sections of Honshu.\u00a0 Increasing vertical wind shear and the added friction caused by the land will weaken Malakas to a tropical storm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough is steering Typhoon Malakas quickly toward the northeast and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Malakas will pass south of Osaka and Nagoya.\u00a0 The center of then Tropical Storm Malakas will move near Tokyo in about 18 hours.\u00a0 Malakas will continue to bring gusty winds to coastal parts of Honshu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Malakas is bringing wind and rain to coastal areas of Shikoku and Honshu.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Malakas was located near latitude 33.4\u00b0N and longitude 134.7\u00b0W which put it about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Malakas was moving toward the northeast at 25 m.p.h. (40 […]<\/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":[166,461,44,133,523,521,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056"}],"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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}