WeatherFanatics: Super Typhoon Nuri Spares Philippines, Targets Japan

Monday, November 3, 2014

Super Typhoon Nuri Spares Philippines, Targets Japan

By Courtney Spamer, Meteorologist

November 3,2014; 8:10PM,EDT

Nuri strengthened to a super typhoon Sunday morning, EDT, over the warm waters of the West Pacific.
A front moving through the East China Sea and across Japan over the weekend picked up the storm as it churned over the open waters of the Western Pacific. This interaction brought a drastic change in Nuri's path.
After heading mostly westward over the past week, Nuri turned northward through the Philippine Sea remaining to the east and northeast of the Philippines over the weekend.
The weather will be nothing out of the ordinary across the Philippines early this week as Nuri continues to track northward, away from the country that is battered by numerous tropical cyclones each year.

Typhoon Nuri churning in the Western Pacific during its northerly track (NOAA)
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Nuri developed on Halloween and quickly strengthened on Saturday into a typhoon. Favorable environmental conditions will keep Nuri at or near super typhoon status into the middle of the upcoming week as it remains over the open Pacific Ocean.
High pressure will briefly build north and east of Japan through Wednesday keeping Nuri on a general northward track.
The high will shift farther east on Thursday and Friday causing Nuri to turn more to the northeast, passing just east of Japan.
Even though the center of the storm will pass east of Japan, the core of heavy rain could pass over eastern Honshu on Thursday and Thursday night.

If the band of heavy rain passes over eastern Honshu, the region including Tokyo could experience torrential rainfall capable of producing flash flooding and increasing the threat for mudslides in the region.
The strongest winds associated with Nuri will remain offshore, but the threat for locally damaging wind gusts is a possibility right near the east coast of Honshu as Nuri makes its closest approach on Thursday.
Meteorologists Eric Leister and Erik Pindrock contributed to this story.

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