Tropical Storm Songda – Day 7
Position: 31.5N 133.4E [ 9PM CDT 0300 UTC 1200 JST].
Movement: Northeast [045°] near 35 mph [56 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 65 mph [100 kph].
Wind Gusts: 80 mph [130 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 150 miles [240 km].
Currently about 565 miles [905 km] West-Southwest of Yokosuka, Japan.
It has encountered very strong sheer from a ridge ahead of it, and is being disassembled.
The Ryukyus were very lucky given what Songda was capable of doing a little over a day ago. It had been the strongest tropical storm of 2011.
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