Powerful Typhoon Mangkhut hit northern Luzon on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Mangkhut was located at latitude 18.2\u00b0N and longitude 121.5\u00b0W which put it about 60 miles (95 km) east of Laoag, Philippines.\u00a0 Mangkhut was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 165 m.p.h. (270 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 200 m.p.h. (320 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 908 mb.<\/p>\n
Mangkhut is a large and dangerous typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out about 110 miles (175 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 330 miles (530 km) from the center.\u00a0 The outer rainbands around Typhoon Mangkhut stretch from Manila, Philippines to southern Taiwan.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) is 36.8.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 38.5 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 75.3.\u00a0 Typhoon Mangkhut is bigger than Hurricane Katrina was when Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale over the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.\u00a0 Typhoon Mangkhut has the potential to cause extensive catastrophic damage over parts of Luzon.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mangkhut will cause extensive catastrophic wind damage over northern Luzon.\u00a0 It will also drop heavy rain and there will be flash floods.\u00a0 The flooding will be worse in areas of steeper slopes.\u00a0 There will be a significant storm surge on the coast of extreme northeastern Luzon.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mangkhut will weaken while it crosses northern Luzon.\u00a0 Mangkhut will then move quickly off to the west-northwest. On its anticipated track Typhoon Mangkhut could be near Hong Kong in about 30 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Powerful Typhoon Mangkhut hit northern Luzon on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Mangkhut was located at latitude 18.2\u00b0N and longitude 121.5\u00b0W which put it about 60 miles (95 km) east of Laoag, Philippines.\u00a0 Mangkhut was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed […]<\/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":[563,43,127,650,1093,103,1229,604,42,1236,63,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652"}],"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=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}