Tropical Storm Oho moved slowly southeast of Hawaii on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Oho was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 153.6\u00b0W which put it about 340 miles (545 km) south-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Oho was moving toward the northeast at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Oho is only partially organized.\u00a0 A partial eyewall wrapped around the western and southern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 However, most of the stronger thunderstorms are located southwest of the center.\u00a0 A weak upper level ridge south of Hawaii appears to be generating some northeasterly winds over the top of Oho, which is causing some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear is inhibiting the organization of the circulation of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Oho is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 The wind shear could decrease on Tuesday and that could allow Oho to increase to hurricane intensity.\u00a0 Oho will move northward over cooler SSTs later this week.\u00a0 A combination of cooler water and more vertical wind shear will cause Oho to weaken and make a transition to an extratropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
A large upper level trough northwest of Hawaii is expected to move eastward and begin to steer Oho toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its expected track, Oho will pass southeast of Hawaii.\u00a0 The extratropical cyclone that is currently Tropical Storm Oho could be approaching the west coast of the U.S. by the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Oho moved slowly southeast of Hawaii on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Oho was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 153.6\u00b0W which put it about 340 miles (545 km) south-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Oho was moving toward the northeast at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[228,108,229,23,232,227,230,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"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=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}