Former Tropical Storm Shanshan strengthened into a typhoon southeast of Japan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Shanshan was located at latitude 21.2\u00b0N and longitude 148.5\u00b0E which put it about 245 miles (395 km) northeast of Agrihan.\u00a0 Shashan was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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
A primary rainband wrapped around the center of circulation and an eye was developing at the center of Typhoon Shanshan.\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 Shanshan.\u00a0 The strongest rainbands were south and east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands north and west of the center consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms around the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 Shanshan has a large circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 190 miles (305 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Shanshan will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Shanshan will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Shanshan will intensify and it could strengthen into the equivalent of a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Shanshan will move around the western portion of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Shanshan in a north-northwesterly direction.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Shanshan will pass east of Iwo To in 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Shanshan could be just southeast of Honshu in about four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Shanshan strengthened into a typhoon southeast of Japan on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Shanshan was located at latitude 21.2\u00b0N and longitude 148.5\u00b0E which put it about 245 miles (395 km) northeast of Agrihan.\u00a0 Shashan was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[793,179,461,107,44,181,1121,474,1125,1056,794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315"}],"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=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}