Typhoon Nolo

Typhoon Nolo is packing 80-kt (90-mph) winds, moving W at 24 kt (28 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

TYPHOON 15E (NOLO), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 361 NM NORTH OF WAKE ISLAND, HAS TRACKED WESTWARD AT 24 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE AT 061800Z IS 974 MB. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 061800Z IS 39 FEET.— Joint Typhoon Warning Center · warning 65

This is the West Pacific · 24°N–36°N, 148°E–168°E. Nolo’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 Nolo’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.