Typhoon Meari moved northwest of the Marianas on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Meari was located at latitude 20.2\u00b0N and longitude 143.2\u00b0E which put it about 240 miles (390 km) west-northwest of Agrihan.\u00a0 Meari was moving toward the northeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (205 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 963 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Meari strengthened on Saturday.\u00a0 An eye appeared on visible satellite imagery.\u00a0 The eyewall is thicker on the southwestern side and thinner on the northeastern side.\u00a0 There are also more rainbands in the southwestern part of the circulation.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out about 70 miles (110 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the core of Typhoon Meari are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Meari will be moving through a favorable environment for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Meari is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The typhoon is moving along the transition zone between an upper level trough to its west and an upper level ridge to its east.\u00a0 There are southwesterly winds blowing across the western side of Typhoon Meari, but those winds are actually enhancing the upper level divergence.\u00a0 Vertical wind shear will increase when the upper level trough moves closer to the typhoon and Meari will start to weaken early next week.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough is steering Typhoon Meari toward the northeast and that general motion is expected to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Meari will pass northwest of the northernmost Marianas.\u00a0 Meari will pass southeast of Iwo To as it moves toward the northern Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Meari moved northwest of the Marianas on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Meari was located at latitude 20.2\u00b0N and longitude 143.2\u00b0E which put it about 240 miles (390 km) west-northwest of Agrihan.\u00a0 Meari was moving toward the northeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed […]<\/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":[563,107,44,181,565,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360"}],"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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}