The center of Typhoon Sarika is located near Catanduanes Island and Sarika poses a serious threat to Luzon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Sarika was located at latitude 14.4\u00b0N and longitude 124.8\u00b0E which put it about 280 miles (455 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Sarika was moving toward the west-northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 981 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Typhoon Sarika is well organized.\u00a0 An eye has appeared at times on conventional and microwave satellite imagery.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped around the eye and strong thunderstorms are occurring in the eyewall.\u00a0 Additional, well formed rainbands are rotating around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The convection around the core is generating well developed upper level divergence which is pumping away mass.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Sarika is moving through a very favorable environment.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Sarika will continue to intensify as long as the center stays over the water and it could intensify rapidly now that the circulation is well organized.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Sarika is steering the typhoon toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Sarika will remain north of Catanduanes Island.\u00a0 It will pass just to the north of Daet and Labo on Saturday.\u00a0 The center of Typhoon Sarika could be near or just to the north of the Polillo Islands in 12-16 hours.\u00a0 Sarika could make a landfall near Baler on Luzon in 18-24 hours.<\/p>\n
Sarika is a well organized intensifying typhoon.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds to portions of northern Luzon.\u00a0 Typhoon Sarika will also bring very heavy rain and create the potential for flash floods and mudslides.\u00a0 Sarika will generate a storm surge in places where the wind blows the water toward the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The center of Typhoon Sarika is located near Catanduanes Island and Sarika poses a serious threat to Luzon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Sarika was located at latitude 14.4\u00b0N and longitude 124.8\u00b0E which put it about 280 miles (455 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Sarika was moving toward the west-northwest […]<\/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":[239,43,173,103,64,42,555,63,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271"}],"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=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}