Typhoon Jongdari turned toward Honshu on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Jongdari was located at latitude 31.0\u00b0N and longitude 143.7\u00b0E which put it about 415 miles (665 km) southeast of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Jongdari was moving toward the north at 24 m.p.h. (39 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (205 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 957 mb.<\/p>\n
An upper level low west of Typhoon Jongdari was affecting the circulation.\u00a0 Winds blowing around the eastern side of the upper low were cutting under the upper level divergence at the top of the circulation of Jongdari.\u00a0 In addition, drier flowing around the southern half of the upper low was being pulled into the western side of the circulation of Typhoon Jongdari.\u00a0 The effects of the upper low were causing the circulation of Typhoon Jongdari to become asymmetrical.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms and stronger winds were occurring in bands in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 With fewer strong thunderstorms in the western part of the typhoon with downdrafts to bring stronger winds to the surface the wind field was also becoming asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation on the eastern side of Jongdari, but they only extended out about 50 miles (80 km) on the western side.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 230 miles (370 km) to the east of the center, but only extended out about 170 miles (280 km) to the west of the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
The upper level low will continue to affect Typhoon Jongdari.\u00a0 Jongdari will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there will be sufficient energy in the upper ocean to support a strong typhoon.\u00a0 However, the upper low will inhibit upper level divergence to the west of the circulation.\u00a0 Upper level divergence will be strong to the southeast of Typhoon Jongdari.\u00a0 Drier air flowing around the upper low will inhibit the formation of thunderstorms in bands in the southwestern part of the circulation.\u00a0 Typhoon Jongdari is likely to weaken slowly, although it could maintain its intensity at times as it moves around the northern side of the upper low.<\/p>\n
The upper low will also steer Typhoon Jongdari during the weekend.\u00a0 Jongdari will turn more toward the west-northwest when it moves around the northern part of the upper low.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Jongdari could pass south of Tokyo in about 18 hours.\u00a0 The center of Jongdari could be very close to Hamamatsu in about 24 hours.\u00a0 It could make landfall near Matsuzaka in a little over a day.\u00a0 Typhoon Jongdari could pass very close to Osaka and Kobe and it could pass just south of Kyoto.\u00a0 Heavy rain fell on parts of Japan earlier this month and Typhoon Jongdari could cause serious flooding in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Jongdari turned toward Honshu on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Jongdari was located at latitude 31.0\u00b0N and longitude 143.7\u00b0E which put it about 415 miles (665 km) southeast of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Jongdari was moving toward the north at 24 m.p.h. (39 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":[501,461,44,1103,1110,764,763,523,474,1106,1056,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273"}],"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=6273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6274,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions\/6274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}