Typhoon Surigae

Typhoon Surigae is packing 105-kt (120-mph) winds, moving NE at 9 kt (10 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

TYPHOON 25W (SURIGAE), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 71 NM SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF KADENA AB, HAS TRACKED NORTHEASTWARD AT 09 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE AT 270600Z IS 952 MB. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 270600Z IS 33 FEET. NEXT WARNINGS AT 271500Z, 272100Z, 280300Z AND 280900Z.— Joint Typhoon Warning Center · warning 17

Surigae tracks over open water — no coast is in the outlook. Along its path, our forecast reads:

This is the West Pacific · 24°N–43°N, 127°E–155°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.

Typhoon Surigae has reached full strength while positioned southeast of Okinawa, with reports indicating continued strengthening and winds of 85 mph as the system moves near the area. Some accounts describe it instead as a tropical storm and point to notable uncertainty about its track during the expected passage southeast of the island. The accounts converge on the general location but introduce differing details on intensity and how the path may unfold.

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