{"id":1555,"date":"2017-10-21T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2017-10-21T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:10:49","slug":"super-typhoon-lan-approaching-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/21\/super-typhoon-lan-approaching-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Lan approaching Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1556\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-satellite.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1556\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1556\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-satellite-300x272.png\" alt=\"Super Typhoon Lan satellite image\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-satellite-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-satellite-768x696.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-satellite.png 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Typhoon Lan satellite image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Super Typhoon Lan at 1200 UTC 21 October was center about 307 NM east-southeast of Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa, Japan and was moving N-NE at 16 knots with max winds up to 130 knots.\u00a0 Lan has a large 45 NM wide eye and hurricane force winds currently extend outward up to 95 NM while 50 knot or higher winds extend outward up to 180 NM.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lan-wind-field.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1557\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lan-wind-field-272x300.gif\" alt=\"Wind Field Super Typhoon Lan\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lan-wind-field-272x300.gif 272w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lan-wind-field-768x848.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind Field Super Typhoon Lan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although sea surface temperatures are high, Lan is moving into an area with substantially lower total heat content and increasing wind shear so max winds are expected to weaken to\u00a0 100 knots, possibly less as it approaches the east coast of Honshu 22<sup>nd<\/sup> 1800-2100 UTC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1558\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-track-1.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1558\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1558\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-track-1-1024x619.gif\" alt=\"JTWC track forecast for Super Typhoon Lan\" width=\"640\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-track-1-1024x619.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-track-1-300x181.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lan-track-1-768x464.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JTWC track forecast for Super Typhoon Lan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Typhoon Lan at 1200 UTC 21 October was center about 307 NM east-southeast of Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa, Japan and was moving N-NE at 16 knots with max winds up to 130 knots.\u00a0 Lan has a large &hellip; 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