Powerful Typhoon Sarika made landfall in Luzon near Baler on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Sarika was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 122.3\u00b0E which put it near Baler, Philippines and about 130 miles (210 km) east-northeast of Manila.\u00a0 Sarika was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 145 m.p.h. (230 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 941 mb.<\/p>\n
Sarika is a powerful, well organized typhoon.\u00a0 It has a circular eye surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 Additional rainbands are rotating around the core of Sarika.\u00a0 The core of Typhoon Sarika is generating well developed upper level divergence which is pumping out mass in all directions.\u00a0 Typhoon Sarika was intensifying rapidly until it made landfall.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Sarika is 20.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 17.0 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 37.6.\u00a0 These indices indicate that Typhoon Sarika is capable of causing regional major wind damage.\u00a0 Typhoon Sarika will also generate a storm surge along the coast of Luzon north of the eye where the wind will push water toward the coast.\u00a0 Sarika will also produce heavy rain over northern Luzon which will create a risk of flash flooding and mudslides.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Typhoon Marika toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track across Luzon the center of Typhoon Sarika will pass near San Jose City,\u00a0 Baguio and Dagupan.\u00a0 The center of Sarika could emerge over the South China Sea near the Lingayen Gulf.\u00a0 The core of Typhoon Sarika will move across the Sierra Madre Mountains and the Cordillera Central.\u00a0 Where winds blow up the slopes of the mountains, rising motion will be stronger and the rainfall will be heavier.\u00a0 The mountains will also disrupt the airflow in the lower part of Sarika’s circulation and the typhoon will weaken.<\/p>\n
It could take the center of Typhoon Sarika about 12 hours to move across Luzon.\u00a0 The environment of the Sea China Sea will\u00a0 be favorable for intensification.\u00a0 The Sea Surface Temperature is warm and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 If the core of the circulation remains reasonably intact, then Typhoon Sarika could intensify again while it moves across the South China Sea.\u00a0 Sarika could eventually move near Hainan Island and into northern Vietnam in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Powerful Typhoon Sarika made landfall in Luzon near Baler on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Sarika was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 122.3\u00b0E which put it near Baler, Philippines and about 130 miles (210 km) east-northeast of Manila.\u00a0 Sarika was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 […]<\/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\/3275"}],"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=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}