Typhoon Lan brought wind and rain to parts of Japan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Lan was located at latitude 35.2\u00b0N and longitude 139.1\u00b0E which put it about 50 miles southwest of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Lan was moving toward the northeast at 37 m.p.h. (60 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (155 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 960 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lan weakened significantly before it reached Japan.\u00a0 Lan moved over cooler water south of Japan.\u00a0 Strong upper level westerly winds caused strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The circulation of Lan pulled drier air into the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 The combination of cooler water, strong shear and drier air caused the significant weakening.\u00a0 In addition the shear was strong enough to push the heavier rain to the northeast of the center of Typhoon Lan.<\/p>\n
Lan was still a typhoon when it made landfall in Honshu despite the unfavorable environment.\u00a0 A weather station at the Tokyo International Airport reported a wind speed of 56 m.p.h. (90 km\/h).\u00a0 Some areas in eastern Honshu experienced periods of heavy rain and gusty winds.\u00a0 The drier air will limit the rainfall after the center of the typhoon passes a given location.<\/p>\n
The strong westerly winds will steer Typhoon Lan rapidly toward the northeast.\u00a0 Lan will move east of Honshu in a few hours.\u00a0 The strong vertical wind shear and cooler, drier air will cause Typhoon Lan to transition to a strong extratropical cyclone east of Japan.<\/p>\n
While Typhoon Lan races across eastern Japan, Tropical Depression 27W organized southeast of Guam.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression 27W was located at latitude 9.3\u00b0N and longitude 147.4\u00b0E which put it about 360 miles (580 km) southeast of Guam.\u00a0 It was moving toward west at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gust to 45 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 27W will move through an environment that will be somewhat favorable for development during the next several days.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge centered northeast of the Marianas is producing easterly winds which are blowing over the top of the depression.\u00a0 Those winds are causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The shear is inhibiting the organization of the circulation and it is slowing the development of the depression.\u00a0 The shear is forecast to decrease during the next several days and the depression could strengthen into a tropical storm if a distinct low level center forms.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 27W is near the southwestern end of the ridge to its northeast.\u00a0 The ridge is currently steering the depression toward the west.\u00a0 It is forecast to move around the end of the ridge and turn more toward the north during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the depression could be near Guam in about 24 hours.\u00a0 It could be a tropical storm at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Lan brought wind and rain to parts of Japan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Lan was located at latitude 35.2\u00b0N and longitude 139.1\u00b0E which put it about 50 miles southwest of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Lan was moving toward the northeast at 37 m.p.h. (60 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[242,277,45,461,44,669,474,276,856,243,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056"}],"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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}