Small Tropical Storm Hilda intensified rapidly on Thursday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Hilda was located at latitude 12.7\u00b0N and longitude 133.4\u00b0W which put it about 1590 miles (2550 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hilda was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 70 m.p.h. (115 km).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1001 mb.<\/p>\n
Hilda is a very small tropical storm.\u00a0 The area of tropical storm force winds only extends outward about 40 miles (65 km) from the center.\u00a0 Even though the circulation is small, it is well organized and there are hints of a tiny eye trying to form in the center of Hilda.\u00a0 Hilda is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are very light and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The thunderstorms in the core of Hilda are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.\u00a0 Hilda is likely to strengthen more during the next day or two because of the favorable environment.\u00a0 However, small tropical cyclones can weaken just as fast as they intensify.\u00a0 When Hilda moves farther west it will encounter some of the same wind shear that is affecting Tropical Storm Guillermo.\u00a0 As a result, Hilda is likely to weaken when it gets closer to Hawaii.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering HIlda toward the west and a generally west-northwestward track is expected during the next several days.\u00a0 As Hilda moves farther west it could turn more toward the northwest, much like Guillermo did when it neared Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Small Tropical Storm Hilda intensified rapidly on Thursday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Hilda was located at latitude 12.7\u00b0N and longitude 133.4\u00b0W which put it about 1590 miles (2550 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hilda was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}