Large Typhoon Trami brought wind and rain to Japan on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Trami was located at latitude 31.8\u00b0N and longitude 132.3\u00b0E which put it about 140 miles (225 km) southwest of Kochi, Japan.\u00a0 Trami was moving toward the northeast at 22 m.p.h. (33 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 950 mb.<\/p>\n
There was still a large eye at the center of Typhoon Trami, but the ring of thunderstorms around the eye was beginning to look a little more ragged.\u00a0 However, the circulation around Trami was very large.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 155 miles (250 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 355 miles (575 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Trami was 17.8.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 49.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 67.4.\u00a0 Typhoon Trami was capable of causing extensive serious damage.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Trami brought strong winds and heavy rain to Okinawa and the northern Ryukyu Islands on Saturday.\u00a0 There were reports of damage.\u00a0 The northern eyewall of Trami passed over Kyushu.\u00a0 Strong winds and heavy rain were falling in that region.\u00a0 Heavy rain and strong winds will reach Shikoku shortly.\u00a0 The center of Typhoon Trami could be near Kyoto in about six hours.\u00a0 Trami will move northeast across Honshu on Sunday.\u00a0 It will bring heavy rain and gusty winds to much of Japan.\u00a0 Flash flooding will be possible over much of Japan.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean Tropical Storm Kong-rey was strengthening southeast of the Ryukyu Islands.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Kong-rey was located at latitude 14.1\u00b0N and longitude 138.1\u00b0E which put it about 1165 miles (1880 km) east of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Kong-rey was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 983 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Large Typhoon Trami brought wind and rain to Japan on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Typhoon Trami was located at latitude 31.8\u00b0N and longitude 132.3\u00b0E which put it about 140 miles (225 km) southwest of Kochi, Japan.\u00a0 Trami was moving toward the northeast at 22 m.p.h. (33 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":[293,601,461,650,44,1291,764,133,46,194,523,474,1278,1290,1282,294,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754"}],"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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}