Typhoon Jongdari neared Iwo To on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Jongdari was located at latitude 24.2\u00b0N and longitude 140.5\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Jongdari was moving toward the northeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 975 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Jongdari strengthened as it neared Iwo To on Thursday.\u00a0 An eye developed at the center of circulation and the Japan Meteorological Agency classified Jongdari as a typhoon.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Jongdari.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Jongdari were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 20 miles (30 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 130 miles (210 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Jongdari will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next day or two.\u00a0 Jongdari will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level low southeast of Honshu will cause easterly winds which will blow over the northern part of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will be less over the core of the typhoon.\u00a0 Typhoon Jongdari will strengthen during the next 24 to 48 hours and it could become the equivalent of a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Jongdari is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific and the ridge is steering Jongdari toward the northeast.\u00a0 A general motion toward the northeast is forecast for the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 The upper low southeast of Honshu will move slowly toward the west.\u00a0 When Jongdari moves farther north, it will begin to be steered more by the upper level low.\u00a0 Typhoon Jongdari is forecast to turn more toward the north on Friday.\u00a0 Jongdari will start to move toward the northwest in about 36 hours, when it moves northeast of the upper level low.<\/p>\n
On its anticipated track Typhoon Jongdari will move over Iwo To in a few hours.\u00a0 It will bring gusty winds and heavy rain.\u00a0 Typhoon Jongdari could approach Honshu in about 48 hours and it could cause flooding in addition to strong winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific, Tropical Storm Wokung was weakening east of northern Japan.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Wokung was located at latitude 42.2\u00b0N and longitude 152.5\u00b0E which put it about 600 miles (960 km) east of Misawa, Japan.\u00a0 Wokung was moving toward the north-northwest at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 995 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Jongdari neared Iwo To on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Jongdari was located at latitude 24.2\u00b0N and longitude 140.5\u00b0E which put it about 105 miles (170 km) southwest of Iwo To.\u00a0 Jongdari was moving toward the northeast at 13 m.p.h. (21 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":[771,501,461,107,44,1103,130,474,1104,1106,1056,1105,772,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263"}],"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=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}