Tropical Storm Dolphin moved into a more favorable environment and intensified into a typhoon on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0N and longitude 155.8\u00b0W which put it about 350 miles east-northeast of Chuuk and about 810 miles east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the west at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 974 mb.<\/p>\n
Dolphin moved closer to the axis of an upper level ridge and the vertical wind shear which was inhibiting its intensification diminished.\u00a0 Since Dolphin is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C, the decreased shear allow it to intensify into a typhoon.\u00a0 Dolphin has a small well organized core circulation with a tiny eye at its center.\u00a0 Spiral bands of thunderstorms radiate out from the center.\u00a0 The upper level outflow produced by those thunderstorms has increased and the removal of mass is allowing the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 Dolphin is expected to remain in a region of modest vertical wind shear and further intensification is likely.\u00a0 A period of rapid intensification is possible.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Dolphin toward the west.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to steer it toward the west-northwest during the next two or three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Dolphin would approach Guam in 48 to 60 hours and it could be a significant typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Dolphin moved into a more favorable environment and intensified into a typhoon on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0N and longitude 155.8\u00b0W which put it about 350 miles east-northeast of Chuuk and about 810 miles east-southeast of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward […]<\/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":[102,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}