Tropical Storm Higos intensified into a typhoon on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Typhoon Higos was located at latitude 12.3\u00b0N and longitude 156.4\u00b0E which put it about 780 miles east of Guam.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west-northwest at 3 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 100 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.<\/p>\n
Higos has been moving slowly through an area where the vertical wind shear was not too strong.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the center of circulation supported strong upper level divergence, which pumped out large quantities of mass.\u00a0 A well developed upper level outflow channel to the northeast enhanced the flow of mass away from the system.\u00a0 Those processes allowed the surface pressure to decrease and the wind speeds to increase on Sunday.\u00a0 Higos remains over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and further intensification is possible on Monday.\u00a0 Eventually, when it moves farther north, Higos will move into an area of stronger wind shear and weaken.<\/p>\n
Higos is moving near the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 It is in an area of weak steering winds, and Higos is moving slowly.\u00a0 The increased intensity and vertical height of the circulation make it more likely that Higos will move toward the north as it reaches the western end of the subtropical ridge.\u00a0 The guidance from numerical models has increased the probability of this track.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Higos intensified into a typhoon on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Typhoon Higos was located at latitude 12.3\u00b0N and longitude 156.4\u00b0E which put it about 780 miles east of Guam.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west-northwest at 3 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. and […]<\/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":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}