Typhoon Yutu brought wind and rain to Luzon on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Yutu was located at latitude 16.8\u00b0N and longitude 122.4\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km east of Ilagan, Philippines.\u00a0 Yutu was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. (22 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 949 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Typhoon Yutu made landfall near Palanan Point on the northeast coast of Luzon late on Monday.\u00a0 Yutu had a large circulation.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 80 miles (130 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 270 miles (435 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Yutu was 17.8.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 25.5 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 43.3.\u00a0 Typhoon Yutu is capable of causing widespread serious damage.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Yutu could cause a storm surge of up to 10 feet (3 meters) on the northeast coast of Luzon.\u00a0 It will also produce destructive winds as it moves across northern Luzon.\u00a0 Yutu will move westward across Luzon.\u00a0 It will move into the South China Sea south of Vigan, Philippines.\u00a0 Typhoon Yutu will drop very heavy rain over parts of northern Luzon and flash flooding will be very likely.\u00a0 Rapid runoff into the Cagayan River could cause it to flood.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Yutu will move over the Sierra Madre mountains and the Cordillera Central when it moves across northern Luzon.\u00a0 Those two mountain ranges will disrupt the lower levels of the circulation and Yutu will be weaker when it reaches the South China Sea.\u00a0 Yutu could still be a typhoon when it moves back over water, but it may weaken to a tropical storm by then.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Yutu will move around the western end of a ridge of high pressure over the Western North Pacific Ocean when it reaches the South China Sea.\u00a0 Yutu will move toward the north when it reaches the western end of the ridge and it could approach China in four or five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Yutu brought wind and rain to Luzon on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Yutu was located at latitude 16.8\u00b0N and longitude 122.4\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km east of Ilagan, Philippines.\u00a0 Yutu was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[888,1352,43,127,650,1351,103,1349,64,71,42,1340,1350,889,1337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967"}],"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=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}