Wipha was a tropical storm over China Monday morning China Standard Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory.
Forecast wind speeds and direction
Typhoon season is year-round; however, most typhoons form from early July through mid-December.
Where will it rain?
Flash flooding can occur well inland and away from the storm’s center. Even weaker storms can produce excessive rainfall that can flood low-lying areas.
1-day forecast precipitation
Tracking Wipha’s rainfall
When a storm comes close enough to land, signals from the United States radar network will begin to bounce off the rainfall within a tropical cyclone, making it easier to locate the more intense section of the storm and the heaviest rainfall. During hurricanes, the storm’s center will be the area on radar void of rain called an eye and completely encircled by the most intense winds and rain called the eye wall. Spiraling out from the center will be bands of rain that vary in intensity.
What is the risk of rip currents?
Rip currents, even from distant storms, are the third-highest cause of death related to hurricanes, behind inland flooding from excessive rain and storm surge, according to the Weather Service. This year, the Hurricane Center has started providing details on rip current forecasts, and it is mapped below.
Tracking power outages
The damaging winds from Wipha caused power outages along the storm’s path.
Share of customers without power
What does the storm look like from above?
Satellite imagery can help determine the strength, size and cohesion of a storm. The stronger a storm becomes, the more likely an eye will form in the center. When the eye looks symmetrical, that often means the storm is not encountering anything to weaken it.
Typhoons have also hit U.S. territories, causing billions of dollars in devastating damage to places like Guam, which was battered by Super Typhoon Mawar in May 2023.
Most typhoons scrape or strike places like the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan; they can also hit the Korean Peninsula, China and Vietnam, bringing damaging winds and storm surges.
What storms have made landfall nearby?
Sources and notes
Tracking map Tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The map shows probabilities of at least 5 percent. The forecast is for up to five days, with that time span starting up to three hours before the reported time that the storm reaches its latest location. Wind speed probability data is not available north of 60.25 degrees north latitude.
Wind arrivals table Arrival times are generated from a New York Times analysis of National Hurricane Center data. Geographic locations use data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Natural Earth. Time zones are based on Google. The table shows predicted arrival times of sustained, damaging winds of 58 m.p.h. or more for select cities with a chance of such winds reaching them. If damaging winds reach a location, there is no more than a 10 percent chance that they will arrive before the “earliest reasonable” time and a 50 percent chance they will arrive before the “most likely” time.
Satellite map Imagery is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Japanese Meteorological Agency via the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
Precipitation map Data for multi-day forecasts or observed rainfall totals are from the National Weather Service. The 1-day forecast is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Note: All basemaps are built with Daylight (urban areas); Natural Earth (roads, labels, terrain)
