Typhoon Wutip strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of Typhoon Wutip was located at latitude 14.0\u00b0N and longitude 140.1\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles (480 km) west-northwest of Guam.\u00a0 Wutip was moving toward the north-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 160 m.p.h. (260 km.h) and there were wind gusts to 195 m.p.h. (315 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 929 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Wutip completed an eyewall replacement cycle on Sunday and then it rapidly intensified into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane.\u00a0 The inner eyewall dissipated completely and the outer eyewall contracted around a circular, symmetrical eye.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the new eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Typhoon Wutip were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Wutip.<\/p>\n
Winds to typhoon force extended out about 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Typhoon Wutip.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 160 miles (260 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Wutip was 35.0.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 16.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 51.6.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Wutip will remain in an environment capable of supporting a strong typhoon for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Wutip will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 A band of stronger westerly winds north of the Philippines will approach Typhoon Wutip in another day or so.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase and the increased shear will cause Wutip to weaken.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Wutip will move southwest of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge is forecast to steer Wutip in a west-northwesterly direction.\u00a0 On its forecast track Typhoon Wutip will gradually move farther away from the Northern Marianas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Wutip strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Monday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EST on Monday the center of Typhoon Wutip was located at latitude 14.0\u00b0N and longitude 140.1\u00b0E which put it about 300 miles (480 km) west-northwest of Guam.\u00a0 Wutip was moving toward the north-northwest at 5 […]<\/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":[406,45,650,136,64,1447,407,1446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453"}],"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=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}