Typhoon Nock-ten intensified rapidly into the equivalent of a major hurricane on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Typhoon Nock-ten was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 128.6\u00b0E which put it about 545 miles (880 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nock-ten was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h. (18 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (205 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 155 m.p.h. (250 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 935 mb.<\/p>\n
Nock-ten is a very well organized typhoon.\u00a0 There is an eye with a diameter of 14 miles (23 km) at the center of Typhoon Nock-ten.\u00a0 The eye is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 Additional bands of thunderstorms surround the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the center are generating strong upper level divergence in all directions.\u00a0 The divergence is pumping out large amounts of mass which allowed the surface pressure to decrease rapidly.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) is 23.6 and the Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 15.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 39.1.\u00a0 Those indices indicate that Typhoon Nock-ten is capable of causing major regional wind damage.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nock-ten will continue to move through an environment that is very favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Nock-ten could intensify more during the next 24 hours and it could become a super typhoon before it reaches the Philippines.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the north of Nock-ten is steering the typhoon toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Nock-ten could be near Catanduanes Island within 36 hours.\u00a0 Nock-ten is likely to pass across southern Luzon and the center could move close to Manila.\u00a0 Typhoon Nock-ten will be capable of causing major wind damage.\u00a0 It will also bring heavy rain and create the potential for floods and mudslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Nock-ten intensified rapidly into the equivalent of a major hurricane on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Typhoon Nock-ten was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 128.6\u00b0E which put it about 545 miles (880 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nock-ten was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h. (18 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[601,103,96,603,63,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537"}],"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=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}