Typhoon Surigae

Typhoon Surigae is packing 100-kt (115-mph) winds, moving NE at 11 kt (13 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

TYPHOON 25W (SURIGAE), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 212 NM EAST-NORTHEAST OF KADENA AB, HAS TRACKED NORTHEASTWARD AT 11 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE AT 280600Z IS 954 MB. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 280600Z IS 40 FEET. NEXT WARNINGS AT 281500Z, 282100Z, 290300Z AND 290900Z.— Joint Typhoon Warning Center · warning 21

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

This is the West Pacific · 26°N–45°N, 130°E–157°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.

Observers tracking the typhoon south of Japan noted it had reached super typhoon strength before beginning to weaken, with one placing the center very close to Minami Daito Island while it moved east-northeast. These details align closely with the official forecast of weakening after passage near the Daito Islands and add confirmation of the storm's recent peak intensity near 145 miles per hour. The reports help clarify how quickly the system is losing strength as it pulls away from the islands.

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