After intensifying to almost Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Saturday, Hurricane Joaquin headed toward Bermuda.\u00a0 The Bermuda Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Warning for Bermuda.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Joaquin was located at latitude 28.0\u00b0N and longitude 68.9\u00b0W which put it about 385 miles (620 km) southwest of Bermuda.\u00a0 Joaquin was moving toward the northeast at 20 m.p.h. (32 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (215 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 944 mb.\u00a0 Joaquin was a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) was 25.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 20.0 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 45.1.<\/p>\n
Joaquin is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, a large upper level trough over the southeastern U.S. and an upper level low northwest of Joaquin are combining to generate westerly winds over the hurricane.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is causing the circulation to become more asymmetrical and the strongest convection is occurring in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The flow of air is also pushing drier air toward the core of Hurricane Joaquin.\u00a0 If Joaquin can move fast enough to outrun the drier air, it could weaken slowly.\u00a0 However, if the drier air gets into the core of the circulation, then Joaquin will weaken faster.<\/p>\n
The trough and upper level low are steering Hurricane Joaquin quickly toward the northeast and that motion is expected to continue on Sunday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Joaquin will pass near Bermuda on Sunday night.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds and a storm surge as it moves past the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After intensifying to almost Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Saturday, Hurricane Joaquin headed toward Bermuda.\u00a0 The Bermuda Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Warning for Bermuda.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Joaquin was located at latitude 28.0\u00b0N and longitude 68.9\u00b0W which put it about 385 miles (620 km) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[208,205,31,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}