{"id":1301,"date":"2015-08-10T03:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T03:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2015-08-10T03:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T03:59:42","slug":"hurricane-hilda-weakening-as-it-moves-toward-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Hilda Weakening As it Moves Toward Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Hilda weakened on Sunday as it move closer to Hawaii.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Hilda was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 148.2\u00b0W which put it about 545 miles (880 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hilda was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 970 mb.<\/p>\n<p>An upper level low north of Hawaii is generating southwesterly winds which are causing vertical wind shear near Hurricane Hilda.\u00a0 The wind shear is inhibiting the upper level divergence on the western side of the circulation and the hurricane is weakening.\u00a0 As Hilda moves farther northwest the wind shear will increase and the hurricane will weaken more quickly.\u00a0 Hilda could weaken below hurricane strength on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A subtropical ridge was steering Hilda toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 The hurricane is near the western end of the ridge and the upper level southwesterly winds are pushing Hilda more toward the northwest.\u00a0 The northwesterly motion is likely to continue while Hilda produces tall thunderstorms and the circulation extends through the troposphere.\u00a0 If Hilda weakens to the point where it no longer produces tall thunderstorms, then it will be steered more toward the west by the winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Hilda weakened on Sunday as it move closer to Hawaii.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Hilda was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 148.2\u00b0W which put it about 545 miles (880 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hilda was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum [&hellip;]<\/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\/1301"}],"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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}