Typhoon Surigae

Typhoon Surigae is packing 75-kt (85-mph) winds, moving NNE at 6 kt (7 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

TYPHOON 25W (SURIGAE), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 153 NM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF KADENA AB, HAS TRACKED NORTH-NORTHEASTWARD AT 06 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE AT 261800Z IS 977 MB. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 261800Z IS 27 FEET.— Joint Typhoon Warning Center · warning 15

This is the West Pacific · 22°N–38°N, 126°E–148°E. Surigae’s forecast track is the dotted spine — the labelled dots mark its position each day. Every cell is shaded by how many hours it spends inside Surigae’s gale-force (≥34 kt · 39 mph) wind across the whole forecast, the damaging core counted double.

Read it two ways at once. Colour is the total — the hours of gale-force wind a place piles up. A slow storm writes its danger in duration, not in any single gust, so the longer the wind sits over a place, the deeper its colour. Opacity is uniform here — this basin publishes no wind-speed-probability field, so the map claims no confidence it has not earned.

Forecasters expect the system south of Okinawa to intensify into a typhoon on Sunday. Tracking shows the storm moving northwest at changing speeds before turning north, placing it southeast of Okinawa on Monday. These details align with the official forecast while clarifying the expected path and timing of the turn.

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