Former Tropical Storm Man-yi strengthened to a typhoon southwest of Guam on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Man-yi was located at latitude 11.1\u00b0N and longitude 141.1\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles (485 km) southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Man-yi was moving toward the west-northwest at 27 m.p.h. (44 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 973 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Man-yi strengthened quickly on Wednesday.\u00a0 An inner band of thunderstorms wrapped around the center of circulation.\u00a0 A small eye appeared intermittently on satellite imagery.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Man-yi.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 145 miles (230 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Man-yi will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification on Thursday.\u00a0 Man-yi will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there will be enough energy in the upper ocean to support further intensification.\u00a0 Typhoon Man-yi will move south of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce strong east-southeasterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will produce moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will inhibit upper level outflow to the east of the typhoon and they will slow the rate of intensification.\u00a0 Despite the moderate vertical wind shear, Typhoon Man-yi is likely to strengthen during the next 24 hours and it could become the equivalent of a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
The ridge will steer Typhoon Man-yi rapidly toward the northwest during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Man-yi will move quickly away from Guam and the Marianas.\u00a0 Man-yi could move southeast of Okinawa this weekend.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the rest of the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression 33W was moving quickly westward over the South China Sea.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression 33W was located at latitude 11.1\u00b0N and longitude 116.2\u00b0E which put it about 505 miles (815 km) east of Cam Ranh, Vietnam.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west at 25 m.p.h. (40 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Man-yi strengthened to a typhoon southwest of Guam on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Typhoon Man-yi was located at latitude 11.1\u00b0N and longitude 141.1\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles (485 km) southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Man-yi was moving toward the west-northwest at 27 m.p.h. (44 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":[924,1373,45,44,1376,136,46,64,71,1379,63,925,1374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083"}],"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=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}