NEWS: Typhoon Muifa storms toward Shanghai; all quiet on the Atlantic front
Jeff Masters and Bob Henson | Yale Climate Connections
Japan’s remote Ishigaki Island, part of the Yaeyami chain at the southwest end of the Okinawa group, took a direct hit from slow-moving Typhoon Muifa on Monday local time. Fortunately, the typhoon had weakened substantially from its category 3 peak achieved over the weekend, arriving at category 2 strength, and the winds on the stronger east side of Muifa’s eyewall bypassed the island. Top sustained winds at Ishigaki were around 56 mph in the southern eyewall, while the heaviest rains and squalls were in the northern eyewall.
As of 8 a.m. EDT Monday, Muifa remained a category 2 storm with top sustained winds of 100 mph. Muifa was embarking on a second eyewall replacement cycle Monday, which will help limit the typhoon’s ability to take advantage of warm sea surface temperatures (around 28 degrees Celsius or 82 degrees Fahrenheit) and still-moderate wind shear (10-15 knots). The atmosphere is only moderately moist (mid-level relative humidity around 60%). Overall, the environment should allow Muifa to hang together, perhaps gradually weakening over the next couple of days.
Muifa is on track to pass over or near Shanghai late Wednesday, probably as a borderline tropical storm/category 1 typhoon, and hug the coast of east-central China as a tropical storm, possibly passing near Beijing around Friday before it dissipates entirely. Most of the coastline will be on the weaker left-hand side of Muifa, so winds should not be a major threat, but widespread torrential rain is a distinct concern. Totals of 3 to 10 inches are possible in and near Shanghai, with 3 to 6 inches or more also possible as Muifa encounters the Shadong Peninsula.
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NEWS: Hurricane Kay unleashes nearly year’s worth of rain, flash flooding in Southern California
Allison Finch | AccuWeather
Tropical Storm Kay unleashed intense winds, flooding rains and even scorching temperatures to drought-stricken California on Friday after bringing deadly impacts to Mexico. As the storm was downgraded to a tropical rainstorm on Saturday, thousands were still without power in California and scenes of havoc were left behind following the storm’s record rainfall.
It wasn’t just the precipitation from the storm that was notable as it took a historically close track nearing the Golden State. Kay marked the closest approach to Southern California from the Pacific in the last 50 years. The next to last point tracked by the National Hurricane Center on Sept. 10 was 130 miles offshore from San Diego, making it the closest pass to the city from the ocean side since records began in 1949, according to Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather senior weather editor and meteorologist. The runner-up was Tropical Storm Hyacinth in 1972, which was a little farther out to sea but slightly farther north.
At least two tropical storms made a closer approach to San Diego over land. An unnamed tropical storm in 1959 came as close as 100 miles southeast of San Diego near Agua Caliente, Mexico. Tropical Storm Kathleen was tracked to near Rancho San Isidro, Mexico, 120 miles southeast of San Diego.Read More | Tropical Storm Kay unleashes nearly year’s worth of rain, flash flooding in SoCal | AccuWeather
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