The large eye of Typhoon Haima neared the coast of China on Thursday and the typhoon was bringing gusty winds and heavy rain to the area near Hong Kong.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Haima was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0N and longitude 115.6\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) east of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Haima was moving toward the northwest at 18 m.p.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
After the center of Typhoon Haima moved northwest of Luzon, a large eye reformed at the center of the typhoon.\u00a0 The diameter of the eye is about 60 miles (95 km).\u00a0 The eye is surrounded by a thin ring of thunderstorms and multiple rainbands.\u00a0 Haima is a large typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out about 70 miles (110 km) from the center and winds to tropical storm force extend out about 240 miles (390 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Haima is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it toward the northwest.\u00a0 Haima is expected to turn more toward the north when it reaches the coast of China.\u00a0 An upper level trough over eastern Asia will begin to steer Haima toward the northeast on Friday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the eye of Typhoon Haima will make landfall on the coast of China near Haifeng and Lufeng.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Haima is 13.9.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 27.0 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 40.9.\u00a0 These indices indicate that Typhoon Haima is capable of causing widespread serious wind damage.\u00a0 Typhoon Haima will also generate a serious storm surge north of where the eye makes landfall and the wind blows the water toward the coast.\u00a0 Haima will also bring heavy rain and a threat of floods to Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces when it moves inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The large eye of Typhoon Haima neared the coast of China on Thursday and the typhoon was bringing gusty winds and heavy rain to the area near Hong Kong.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Haima was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0N and longitude 115.6\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 […]<\/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":[242,43,127,44,130,42,556,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308"}],"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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}