Former Tropical Storm Marie rapidly strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Marie was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0N and longitude 115.1\u00b0W which put it about 685 miles (1100 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Marie was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Hurricane Marie exhibited much greater organization on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped entirely around the center of Marie.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Marie.\u00a0 Storms near the core generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away to the west of the hurricane.\u00a0 The circulation around Marie was small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force only extended out 15 miles (25 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out 60 miles from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Marie will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 Marie will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level wind are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Marie will continue to strengthen and it could intensify rapidly at time.\u00a0 Marie could intensify into a major hurricane within 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Marie will move south of a ridge of high pressure over the southwestern U.S.\u00a0 The high will steer Marie toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Marie will move farther away Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Marie rapidly strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Marie was located at latitude 14.3\u00b0N and longitude 115.1\u00b0W which put it about 685 miles (1100 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Marie was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[236,39,237,2249,2248,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10488,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}