The core of Typhoon Dolphin moved over Guam and Rota on Friday.\u00a0 Andersen Air Force Base reported northwesterly winds at 75 m.p.h. with gusts to 106 m.p.h. in one of its hourly observations.\u00a0 The base also reported a Peak Wind of 86 knots (100 m.p.h.) in another observation.\u00a0 The international airport on Guam reported a Peak Wind of 70 knots (80 m.p.h.).\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Dolphin was located at latitude 15.1\u00b0N and longitude 143.0\u00b0E which put it about 120 miles northwest of Guam.\u00a0 Dolphin was moving toward the northwest at 15 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 155 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 941 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Dolphin is intensifying rapidly.\u00a0 It is over water there the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C and the upper level winds are light.\u00a0 It has a well formed eye and thunderstorms around the center are pumping out mass.\u00a0 Upper level divergence is occurring and their are outflow channels to the northeast and southwest.\u00a0 Dolphin could continue to intensify rapidly for another 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Dolphin is near the western end of a subtropical ridge and it should gradually turn toward the north and then the northeast.\u00a0 Its anticipated track will take it farther away from Guam, but it could approach Iwo To in about 72 hours as a significant typhoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The core of Typhoon Dolphin moved over Guam and Rota on Friday.\u00a0 Andersen Air Force Base reported northwesterly winds at 75 m.p.h. with gusts to 106 m.p.h. in one of its hourly observations.\u00a0 The base also reported a Peak Wind of 86 knots (100 m.p.h.) in another observation.\u00a0 The international airport on Guam reported a […]<\/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":[45,107,104,105,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}