Former Tropical Storm Lingling strengthened to a typhoon south of the Ryukyu Islands on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Lingling was located at latitude 21.7\u00b0N and longitude 124.3\u00b0E which put it about 180 miles (295 km) south of Ishigaki, Japan.\u00a0 Lingling was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 979 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lingling exhibited much greater organization on Tuesday.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 30 miles (50 km) developed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Lingling.\u00a0 The strongest rainbands were occurring in the southeastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Lingling were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 30 miles from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 140 miles (220 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lingling will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Lingling 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 Typhoon Lingling is likely to continue to intensify and it could strengthen into the equivalent of a major hurricane in a couple of days.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Lingling is moving around the western end of a large subtropical ridge over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Lingling toward the north during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Lingling could reach the southern Ryukyu Islands within 24 hours.\u00a0 Lingling will bring strong, gusty winds and heavy rain to those islands.\u00a0 Typhoon Lingling could approach Kyushu and South Korea in about three days.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression Kajiki was dropping heavy rain over parts of Vietnam and Laos.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Depression Kajiki was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 107.3\u00b0E which put it about 65 miles (105 km) west-northwest of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Kajiki was moving toward the west at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 998 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Lingling strengthened to a typhoon south of the Ryukyu Islands on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Lingling was located at latitude 21.7\u00b0N and longitude 124.3\u00b0E which put it about 180 miles (295 km) south of Ishigaki, Japan.\u00a0 Lingling was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[501,514,1649,1080,44,1642,133,173,1640,194,130,42,1648,1647,63,502,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276"}],"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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}