After causing significant destruction over northern Luzon, Typhoon Mangkhut approached southern China on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Mangkhut was located at latitude 21.0\u00b0N and longitude 114.4\u00b0E which put it about 130 miles (205 km) south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Mangkhut was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h. (34 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 961 mb.<\/p>\n
The inner core of Typhoon Mangkhut was disrupted when it moved across the northern end of Luzon.\u00a0 The inner eyewall weakened and a larger ragged eye was at the center of the typhoon.\u00a0 Recent visible satellite images seemed to show an inner rainband wrapping more tightly around the center of circulation and the inner core of Typhoon Mangkhut could be reorganizing.\u00a0 A smaller eye could be redeveloping at the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Even though it has weakened since yesterday, Typhoon Mangkhut has a very large circulation.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extend out about 70 miles (110 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 350 miles (565 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Mangkhut is 16.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 28.5 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Index (HWISI) is 45.0.\u00a0 Typhoon Mangkhut is capable of causing widespread serious damage.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mangkhut is moving southwest of a subtropical ridge which is steering the typhoon quickly toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Mangkhut will pass south of Hong Kong in a few hours.\u00a0 Mangkhut will make landfall on the coast of south China near Yangjiang in about 12 hours.\u00a0 Typhoon Mangkhut will bring strong gusty winds to southern China.\u00a0 It will cause a storm surge of up to 10 feet (3 meters) along the coast.\u00a0 Mangkhut will also drop heavy rain and it will cause flash floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After causing significant destruction over northern Luzon, Typhoon Mangkhut approached southern China on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Mangkhut was located at latitude 21.0\u00b0N and longitude 114.4\u00b0E which put it about 130 miles (205 km) south-southeast of Hong Kong.\u00a0 Mangkhut was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[563,43,127,103,1229,64,42,1236,63,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661"}],"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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}