The eye of Typhoon Noru skirted the coast of Shikoku on Sunday as it moved closer to a landfall on Honshu.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Noru was located at latitude 33.6\u00b0N and longitude 134.5\u00b0W which put it about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Noru was moving toward the northeast at 14 m.p.h. (22 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. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 970 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Typhoon Noru improved on Sunday.\u00a0 The circulation contracted around an eye with a diameter of approximately 20 miles (32 km).\u00a0 They eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in the ring of storms.\u00a0 Additional spiral bands were revolving around the core of Typhoon Noru.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough northwest of Japan steered Typhoon Noru toward the northeast on Sunday.\u00a0 The eye of Noru moved near the south coast of Shikoku.\u00a0 The eye passed south of Kochi and very near Muroto, Toyo and Kainan.\u00a0 Typhoon Noru brought gusty winds and heavy rain to the southern parts of Shikoku.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Noru is expected to continue to move toward the northeast on Monday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Noru is expected to skirt the east coast of Shikoku and make landfall on Honshu near Wakayama.\u00a0\u00a0 After it makes landfall, Typhoon Noru is forecast to pass near Osaka and Kyoto.\u00a0 Typhoon Noru will weaken as it moves across Honshu, but it will produce gusty winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 The rain could cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The eye of Typhoon Noru skirted the coast of Shikoku on Sunday as it moved closer to a landfall on Honshu.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Noru was located at latitude 33.6\u00b0N and longitude 134.5\u00b0W which put it about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of Osaka, Japan.\u00a0 Noru was moving […]<\/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":[453,461,44,764,765,763,523,748,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432"}],"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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}