The core of Tropical Storm Ignacio organized rapidly on Wednesday and it was upgraded to hurricane status by the National Hurricane Center.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Ignacio was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 137.5\u00b0W which put it about 1275 miles (2055 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Ignacio was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.<\/p>\n
A primary rainband wrapped completely around the center of Ignacio and a large eye cleared in the middle of the circulation.\u00a0\u00a0 Strong thunderstorms surround the eye in a well formed eyewall.\u00a0 Other bands of thunderstorms are spiraling around the core of Ignacio.\u00a0 The upper level winds lessened and the strong convection in the core of Ignacio produced upper level divergence.\u00a0 The divergence pumped out mass and the surface pressure decreased.\u00a0 Ignacio is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures.\u00a0 The environment is favorable for intensification and a period of rapid intensification is possible.\u00a0 Ignacio could become a major hurricane as it moves across the Central Pacific.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Ignacio toward the west.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to steer the hurricane in a generally west-northwesterly direction during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Ignacio could approach the Big Island of Hawaii in about five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The core of Tropical Storm Ignacio organized rapidly on Wednesday and it was upgraded to hurricane status by the National Hurricane Center.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Ignacio was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 137.5\u00b0W which put it about 1275 miles (2055 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Ignacio was […]<\/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\/1447"}],"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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}