Typhoon Dolphin is bringing wind and rain to Guam and Rota.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 146.6\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles east of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 130 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 952 mb.\u00a0 A Typhoon Warning is in effect for Guam, Rota, Saipan and Tinian.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index is 19.2, the Hurricane Size Index is 12.8 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index is 32.0.\u00a0 The indices suggest that Dolphin is capable of producing regional serious damage.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Dolphin became more symmetrical on Thursday and radar images from Guam show a circular eye and eyewall.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center are generating upper level outflow.\u00a0 Dolphin is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and it is in an area where the upper level winds are relatively light.\u00a0 The combination of better organization, warm water, little vertical wind shear suggest that further intensification is likely.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Dolphin toward the west-northwest and that steering pattern is likely to continue for another day or so.\u00a0 As Dolphin moves near the western end of the subtropical ridge, it is likely to turn more toward the north.\u00a0 Eventually, when the typhoon moves farther north, westerly winds will turn it toward the northeast.<\/p>\n
The core of Typhoon Dolphin will pass near Guam and Rota during the next few hours.\u00a0 The northern portion of Guam and Rota will experience the strongest winds and heaviest rainfall, although much of Guam will experience the effects of Dolphin.\u00a0 The core of the typhoon will likely pass south of Saipan and Tinian, but those islands will still get hit by rainbands rotating around the northern half of the circulation.<\/p>\n
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Typhoon Dolphin is bringing wind and rain to Guam and Rota.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 146.6\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles east of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 […]<\/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":[45,104,105,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}