Typhoon Noru approached Iwo To from the northeast on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Noru was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 143.0\u00b0E which put it about 220 miles (355 km) north-northeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Noru was moving toward the southwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (150 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 975 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Noru retains a well organized circulation.\u00a0 An eyewall wraps about three quarters of the way around the eye.\u00a0 There is a break in the ring of thunderstorms on the northeastern rim of the eye.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms are occurring north and east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 There are fewer showers and thunderstorms south and west of the center of the typhoon.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center are generating some upper level divergence.\u00a0 The circulation of Typhoon Noru is fairly large.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 200 miles (320 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Noru will be moving through an environment that is marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Noru will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge centered west of Japan is producing northeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those northeasterly winds are creating moderate vertical wind shear, which is limiting the upper level divergence to the north of the typhoon.\u00a0 The wind shear is not strong enough to weaken Typhoon Noru, but it is strong enough to inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Typhoon Noru may undergo small changes in intensity during the next several days, but it could maintain its status as a typhoon.<\/p>\n
The ridge west of Japan is also steering typhoon Noru toward the southwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another day or so.\u00a0 In 24 to 48 hours Noru is forecast to reach and area where the steering winds are weak and it could stall near Iwo To.\u00a0 On its anticipated path Typhoon Noru could bring an extended period of strong gusty winds and heavy rain to Iwo To.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Noru approached Iwo To from the northeast on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Noru was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 143.0\u00b0E which put it about 220 miles (355 km) north-northeast of Iwo To.\u00a0 Noru was moving toward the southwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[453,107,44,748,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352"}],"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=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}