Typhoon Halong intensified into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Halong was located at latitude 20.4\u00b0N and longitude 150.6\u00b0E which put it about 345 miles (560 km) southwest of Minami Tori Shima, Japan.\u00a0 Halong was moving toward the north-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 180 m.p.h. (290 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 220 m.p.h. (355 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 900 mb.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Halong intensified into one of the strongest tropical cyclones of 2019 over the Western North Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.\u00a0 There was a circular eye with a diameter of 15 miles (24 km) at the center of Halong.\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 Halong.\u00a0 Storm near the core were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the northeast of the typhoon.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Typhoon along was compact and symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 115 miles (185 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Typhoon Halong was 42.2.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 9.4 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 51.6.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Halong has probably reached its peak intensity.\u00a0 Halong will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, an upper level trough near Japan will approach Typhoon Halong from the northwest.\u00a0 The trough will produce strong southwesterly winds which will start to increase the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 More wind shear will cause Halong to weaken.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will start to steer Typhoon Halong toward the northeast in 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Typhoon Halong will pass northwest of Minami Tori Shima on Thursday.\u00a0 Even though it will weaken, Halong will bring strong, gusty winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Western North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Nakri developed over the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Nakri was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0N and longitude 116.0\u00b0E which put it about 380 miles (615 km) west of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Nakri was moving toward the northeast at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
Although Tropical Storm Nakri is currently moving toward the northeast, it is forecast to move back toward the west later this week.\u00a0 Nakri will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nakri could strengthen into a typhoon before it reaches the coast of Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Halong intensified into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Typhoon Halong was located at latitude 20.4\u00b0N and longitude 150.6\u00b0E which put it about 345 miles (560 km) southwest of Minami Tori Shima, Japan.\u00a0 Halong was moving toward the […]<\/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":[239,242,1795,650,44,604,1798,1800,64,1799,1797,63,240,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792"}],"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=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8793,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}