Tropical Storm Khanun intensified into a typhoon southeast of Hong Kong on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Khanun was located at latitude 20.1\u00b0N and longitude 114.2\u00b0W which put it about 170 miles (275 km) south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Khanun was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (29 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 965 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Typhoon Khanun became much more well organized on Saturday.\u00a0 A small circular eye formed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A tight ring of strong thunderstorms formed around the eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Khanun.\u00a0 There were many more showers and thunderstorms in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 The storms in the core of Khanun were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the west of the typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 70 miles (110 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 250 miles (400 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Khanun will move through an environment favorable for intensification for about another 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Khanun will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge north of Typhoon Khanun is producing easterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The easterly winds are causing some vertical wind shear, but the shear is not strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 The circulation of Typhoon Khanun will interact with land in 12 to 18 hours and that interaction should halt further intensification.<\/p>\n
The ridge north of Khanun has been steering the typhoon toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 The ridge is forecast to strengthen on Sunday and it will steer Typhoon Khanun more toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Khanun will pass south of Hong Kong and Macao on Sunday.\u00a0 Khanun will approach the south coast of China near Zhanjiang in 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Typhoon Khanun will bring strong gusty winds and locally heavy rain to southern China west of Hong Kong and Macao.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause flooding in some locations.\u00a0 Typhoon Khanun will be weaker when it moves over the Gulf of Tongking in about 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Khanun intensified into a typhoon southeast of Hong Kong on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Khanun was located at latitude 20.1\u00b0N and longitude 114.2\u00b0W which put it about 170 miles (275 km) south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Khanun was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (29 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[239,43,468,127,173,851,850,63,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007"}],"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=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}