By DAVE ORNAUER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 10, 2021
5:45 p.m. Sunday, April 18, Japan time: Surigae continues to dial back the intensity, but remains a Category 4-equivalent super typhoon, passing along the east coast of the Philippines. Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts Surigae to curve northeast after leaving the Philippines and pass more than 330 miles south-southeast of Okinawa at mid-day Thursday. At 3 p.m., Surigae was 422 miles east of Metro Manila and 886 miles south of Kadena Air Base, moving northwest at 7 mph, still packing 155-mph sustained winds and 190-mph gusts at center. Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal 2 remains raised for Samar and Catanduanes in the Philippines, according to the national weather authority PAGASA.
By DAVE ORNAUER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 10, 2021
11:05 p.m. Saturday, April 17, Japan time: Wow. Just wow. In just under two days time, Surigae has increased in intensity by nearly 300 percent, from a severe tropical storm early Friday to the first Category 5-equivalent super typhoon of the northwest Pacific season as we approach Sunday. As Friday dawned, Surigae was packing 63-mph sustained winds and 81-mph gusts. But now . wow. At 9 p.m., Surigae was packing 178-mph sustained winds and 219-mph gusts at center, moving northwest at 13 mph, 988 miles south of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. Typhoon-force winds extend 65 miles outward from Surigae s center and tropical storm-force winds 200 miles outward, according to the National Weather Service on Guam.
After rapid intensification, Surigae becomes 1st super typhoon of 2021
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Super Typhoon Surigae churned over the Philippine SeaI on Saturday. Image courtesy of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
April 17 (UPI) The first typhoon of 2021 has formed in the western Pacific Basin as Surigae underwent rapid intensification over the Philippine Sea, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said Saturday.
By late Saturday afternoon, local time, Surigae had intensified to 10-minute average sustained wind speeds of 115 mph and was located about 325 nautical miles east of Legazpi, Philippines. It was moving northwest at about 12 mph.
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With this level of strengthening, the Surigae became the first tropical system of the year to reach super typhoon status, the JTWC said.
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