{"id":939,"date":"2016-09-16T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T23:45:08","slug":"typhoon-malakas-nears-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/typhoon-malakas-nears-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Malakas nears Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_940\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas2.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-940\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-940\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas2-300x272.png\" alt=\"IR Satellite image Typhoon Malakas\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas2-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas2-768x696.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas2.png 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IR Satellite image Typhoon Malakas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Typhoon Malakas continues to approach Taiwan, however, the center is expected to pass about 50-60 NM east of Taipei between 0600-1200 UTC on the 17<sup>th<\/sup> with max winds of 110-120 knots.\u00a0 At that time hurricane force winds will extend outward only 20 NM west and 30 NM east with 50 knot or higher winds extending outward 50 NM west and 70 NM east. \u00a0Max significant wave height is currently estimated to be about 38 feet (11.6 meters).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Malakas is forecast to turn northward after passing Taiwan then northeastward towards Japan but will start to weaken after 18-24 hours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_941\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas1-1.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-941\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-941\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas1-1-1024x598.gif\" alt=\"JTWC forecast track for Typhoon Malakas\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas1-1-1024x598.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas1-1-300x175.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/malakas1-1-768x448.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JTWC forecast track for Typhoon Malakas<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Typhoon Malakas continues to approach Taiwan, however, the center is expected to pass about 50-60 NM east of Taipei between 0600-1200 UTC on the 17th with max winds of 110-120 knots.\u00a0 At that time hurricane force winds will extend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/typhoon-malakas-nears-taiwan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[28,46,19,5,6,14,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}