Typhoon Mitag was passing just to the east of China on Monday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Mitag was located at latitude 27.7\u00b0N and longitude 122.2\u00b0E which put it about 250 miles (400 km) south-southeast of Shanghai, China.\u00a0 Mitag was moving toward the north-northeast at 14 m.p.h. (22 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. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 970 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mitag began to weaken later on Monday.\u00a0 An upper level\u00a0 trough over eastern Asia was producing southerly winds which were blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The circulation around Mitag was drawing drier air from Asia into the southern and western parts of the typhoon.\u00a0 There was still an eye at the center of Typhoon Mitag.\u00a0 However the ring of strong thunderstorms around the eye weakened.\u00a0 The stronger bands of showers and thunderstorms were in the northern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the southern half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 215 miles (345 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mitag will likely to continue to weaken during the next several days.\u00a0 The upper level trough will continue to cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The circulation around Mitag will also continue to draw drier air from Asia into the typhoon.\u00a0 Typhoon Mitag will continue to weaken slowly and it could weaken to a tropical storm\u00a0 within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will steer Typhoon Mitag toward the north-northeast during the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Mitag will turn more toward the northeast in a day or so.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Mitag will pass to the east of Ningbo and Shanghai.\u00a0 Mitag could approach South Korea in about 36 hours.\u00a0 It will likely be a tropical storm by that time, but Mitag could drop locally heavy rain over South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Mitag was passing just to the east of China on Monday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Typhoon Mitag was located at latitude 27.7\u00b0N and longitude 122.2\u00b0E which put it about 250 miles (400 km) south-southeast of Shanghai, China.\u00a0 Mitag was moving toward the north-northeast at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[176,43,1716,1123,1725,130,1722,1145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546"}],"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=8546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8547,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions\/8547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}