Typhoon Lekima made landfall in China about 200 miles (320 km) south of Shanghai on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Lekima was located at latitude 28.8\u00b0N and longitude 121.2\u00b0E which put it about 195 miles (315 km) south of Shanghai, China.\u00a0 Lekima was moving toward the north-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 960 mb.<\/p>\n
The inner eye of Typhoon Lekima made landfall on the east coast of China in Zhejiang province about 200 miles (320 km) south of Shanghai on Friday.\u00a0 Lekima was the the equivalent of a large, major hurricane at the time of landfall.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 70 miles (110 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 230 miles\u00a0 (370 km) from the center.\u00a0 Typhoon Lekima continued to exhibit two concentric eyewalls at the time of landfall.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring around the small inner eye, but winds to typhoon force were also occurring in the large outer eyewall.\u00a0 The double eyewall structure contributed to the large circulation around Lekima.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lekima will move around the western end of a subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Lekima a little to the west of due north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Lekima will remain inland, but it will also stay near the coast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Lekima will pass just to the west of Shanghai in 18 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Lekima will weaken slowly while it moves northward.\u00a0 The large size of the circulation and the fact that a portion of the circulation will remain over the Yellow Sea will lengthen the time it takes for the circulation to spin down.\u00a0 Lekima is likely to be a tropical storm by the time the center nears Shanghai.\u00a0 Typhoon Lekima will bring gusty winds and drop locally heavy rain over Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces.\u00a0 Flash flooding is likely in places that receive prolonged heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Typhoon Krosa remained stalled south of Iwo To.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Krosa was located at latitude 22.4\u00b0N and longitude 141.3\u00b0E which put it about 175 miles (280 km) south of Iwo To.\u00a0 Krosa was moving toward the north at 2 m.p.h. (3 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 975 mb.\u00a0 Typhoon Krosa has been nearly stationary long enough to mix cooler water to the surface, which is why it weakened during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 Krosa is forecast to move toward Iwo To during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Lekima made landfall in China about 200 miles (320 km) south of Shanghai on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Lekima was located at latitude 28.8\u00b0N and longitude 121.2\u00b0E which put it about 195 miles (315 km) south of Shanghai, China.\u00a0 Lekima was moving toward the north-northwest at 12 […]<\/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":[472,466,43,107,44,1585,1577,1571,1586,1092,1580,1575,473,467,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081"}],"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=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}