Typhoon Sanvu is bringing a prolonged period of gusty winds and heavy rain to Chichi JIma, Japan.\u00a0 Sanvu strengthened during the past several days while it meandered around Chichi Jima.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center to Typhoon Sanvu was located at latitude 28.1\u00b0N and longitude 142.0\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) north-northwest of Chichi Jima, Japan.\u00a0 Sanvu was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 967 mb.<\/p>\n
The organization of Typhoon Sanvu has been slowly improving.\u00a0 An eye developed at the center of Sanvu as the typhoon moved slowly over Chichi Jima.\u00a0 A broken ring of thunderstorms surrounds the eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds are occurring in the ring of storms.\u00a0 A primary band of thunderstorms wraps around the western and southern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms are developing outside the core of Typhoon Sanvu.\u00a0 Most of the bands are developing in the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Sanvu are producing upper level divergence which is pumping mass away to the north of the typhoon.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Sanvu will move through an environment favorable for intensification for several more days.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Sanvu is producing southerly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation, but there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Sanvu is likely to continue to strengthen for another 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Eventually, Sanvu will move over colder water and the wind shear will increase.\u00a0 It will start to weaken when that happens.<\/p>\n
Sanvu is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which steering the typhoon toward the north.\u00a0 When Typhoon Sanvu moves farther north, it will be steered by an upper level trough over Japan.\u00a0 Southwesterly winds will steer Sanvu toward the northeast at a faster speed in a day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Sanvu would stay east of Tokyo, but it could affect the northernmost islands of Japan in four or five days.\u00a0 Conditions in Chichi Jima should improve slowly as Typhoon Sanvu moves farther away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Sanvu is bringing a prolonged period of gusty winds and heavy rain to Chichi JIma, Japan.\u00a0 Sanvu strengthened during the past several days while it meandered around Chichi Jima.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center to Typhoon Sanvu was located at latitude 28.1\u00b0N and longitude 142.0\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles […]<\/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":[793,226,182,44,225,474,800,794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668"}],"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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}