Typhoon Maysak weakened below Super Typhoon intensity on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typoon Maysak was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0N and longitude 133.5\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles northwest of Yap and about 780 miles east-southwest of Luzon.\u00a0 Maysak was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 135 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 937 mb.<\/p>\n
Maysak appears to have gone through an eyewall replacement cycle on Wednesday.\u00a0 A rainband wrapped around the existing eyewall to create to concentric eyewalls.\u00a0 As more air started to converge and rise in the outer eyewall, the inner eyewall which had the stronger winds weakened.\u00a0 As the inner eyewall dissipated, the core of Maysak became enlarged and it now has an eye with a diameter of 32 miles.\u00a0 The maximum wind speed decreased as part of the eyewall replacement process.\u00a0 If the current eye were to shrink, the wind speed could increase again because it is still over warm Sea Surface Temperatures.\u00a0 However, as Maysak moves toward the west-northwest it is moving toward an area where the upper level winds are stronger.\u00a0 An upper level trough located northwest of Maysak is generating stronger upper level winds, which will increase the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Maysak could intensify on Thursday, but the wind shear is expected to weaken it during the next several days.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Maysak toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 The upper level trough is expected to make it move a little more toward the north during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 On its expected track, Maysak could be approaching Luzon in about 60 hours.\u00a0 Maysak is expected to still be a typhoon when it approaches Luzon.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds and locally heavy rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Maysak weakened below Super Typhoon intensity on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Typoon Maysak was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0N and longitude 133.5\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles northwest of Yap and about 780 miles east-southwest of Luzon.\u00a0 Maysak was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}