Typhoon Lan headed northward and strengthened on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Lan was located at latitude 19.2\u00b0N and longitude 130.0\u00b0E which put it about 550 miles (885 km) south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Lan was moving toward the north at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 956 mb.<\/p>\n
Lan strengthened into a large powerful typhoon on Thursday.\u00a0 A big circular eye developed at the core of Typhoon Lan.\u00a0 The eye was not perfectly clear.\u00a0 There was a small area of convection at the center of the eye and there was a clear moat around that area.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Multiple bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the typhoon.\u00a0 Lan is a very large typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out up to 140 miles (225 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out up to 305 miles (490 km) from the center<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Lan was 16.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 46.8 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 63.3.\u00a0 The circulation of Typhoon Lan is almost as large as the circulation of Hurricane Sandy was when Sandy hit the U.S. in 2012.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lan will be moving through an environment favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 Lan will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through and area where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Lan could intensify into the equivalent of a major hurricane during the next day or two.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lan is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering the typhoon toward the north.\u00a0 Lan is likely to continue to move toward the north on Friday.\u00a0 The typhoon will be affected by westerly winds when it moves farther north.\u00a0 Those winds will cause Typhoon Lan to move more toward the north-northeast during the weekend.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Lan could pass southeast of Okinawa in 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Lan could approach Honshu within three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Lan headed northward and strengthened on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Lan was located at latitude 19.2\u00b0N and longitude 130.0\u00b0E which put it about 550 miles (885 km) south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Lan was moving toward the north at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was […]<\/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":[242,461,650,44,46,194,96,474,856,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"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=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}