Former Tropical Storm Jelawat strengthened into a typhoon as it moved west-northwest of Guam on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Jelawat was located at latitude 15.9\u00b0N and longitude 137.7\u00b0E which put it about 520 miles (840 km) west-northwest of Guam.\u00a0 Jelawat was moving toward the east-northeast at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 972 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Jelawat strengthened quickly on Thursday night.\u00a0 A small eye developed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Jelawat.\u00a0 Storms in the core of the circulation were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the northeast of the typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 45 miles (75 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 145 miles (230 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Jelawat will move through an area favorable for intensification on Friday.\u00a0 Jelawat will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 Typhoon Jelawat has moved around the western end of an upper level ridge which is producing southwesterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are producing some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear is not strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0\u00a0 Typhoon Jelwat is likely to intensify further on Friday.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge is steering Typhoon Jelawat toward the east-northeast and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Jelawat is expected to pass northwest of Guam.\u00a0 Jelawat could approach the northernmost islands in the Marianas in about two or three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Jelawat strengthened into a typhoon as it moved west-northwest of Guam on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Jelawat was located at latitude 15.9\u00b0N and longitude 137.7\u00b0E which put it about 520 miles (840 km) west-northwest of Guam.\u00a0 Jelawat was moving toward the east-northeast at 7 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[667,45,107,44,136,181,984,668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729"}],"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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}