Typhoon Maysak weakened slowly on Thursday as it moved in the direction of Luzon.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Maysak was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0N and longitude 130.6\u00b0E which put it about 420 miles east of Catanduanes Island and about 580 miles east-southeast of Luzon.\u00a0 Maysak was moving toward the west-northwest at 11 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 948 mb.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough passing north of Maysak is generating vertical wind shear which is causing the typhoon to weaken slowly.\u00a0 The western side of the trough contains some drier air which is also getting into the circulation of Maysak.\u00a0 The drier air is reducing the amount of latent energy available to maintain the circulation.\u00a0 So, even though Maysak is still over warm Sea Surface Temperatures it is slowly weakening.\u00a0 The wind shear may decrease after the upper level trough moves east of Maysak, but as the typhoon moves further west, it will still encounter drier air.\u00a0 As a result, Maysak it expected to continue to slowly weaken.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Maysak in a west-northwesterly direction.\u00a0 The upper level trough has temporarily weakened the ridge and Maysak is moving a bit more toward the northwest.\u00a0 After the upper level trough moves east of the typhoon, it is expected to resume a west-northwesterly motion.\u00a0 The expected track would bring Maysak close to Luzon in 36 to 42 hours.\u00a0 Maysak is expected to be a low end typhoon or strong tropical storm when it nears Luzon.\u00a0 It will be capable of producing some stronger winds and locally heavy rainfall as it moves across Luzon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Maysak weakened slowly on Thursday as it moved in the direction of Luzon.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Maysak was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0N and longitude 130.6\u00b0E which put it about 420 miles east of Catanduanes Island and about 580 miles east-southeast of Luzon.\u00a0 Maysak was moving toward 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":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}