Strengthening Typhoon Nesat moved nearer to Taiwan on Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Nesat was located at latitude 22.0\u00b0N and longitude 123.3\u00b0E which put it about 275 miles (440 km) south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Nesat was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 973 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nesat has a very well organized circulation.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms almost completely surrounds the eye.\u00a0 There is a small gap in the ring on the northeastern rim of the eye.\u00a0 Numerous additional bands of showers and thunderstorms are occurring in the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 There are fewer bands of showers and thunderstorms in the northern part of the circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Typhoon Nesat are producing upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 145 miles (230 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nesat will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification until it reaches Taiwan.\u00a0 Nesat will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge centered west of Japan is producing east-northeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are causing some vertical wind shear, but they are not strong enough to keep Typhoon Nesat from strengthening.\u00a0 Typhoon Nesat is likely to intensify for another 12-18 hours until it reaches Taiwan.\u00a0 When it Nesat reaches Taiwan, the mountains will disrupt the circulation.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Nesat is being steered toward the west-northwest by a subtropical ridge to its north.\u00a0 A general west-northwesterly or northwesterly motion is expected to continue until Nesat makes landfall in Taiwan.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Nesat will make landfall on the east coast of Taiwan in 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Neast will bring strong winds and heavy rain to Taiwan.\u00a0 The heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strengthening Typhoon Nesat moved nearer to Taiwan on Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Nesat was located at latitude 22.0\u00b0N and longitude 123.3\u00b0E which put it about 275 miles (440 km) south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Nesat was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[466,43,44,130,42,752,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354"}],"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=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}