The core of the circulation of Olaf consolidated on Sunday and the National Hurricane Center upgraded it to a hurricane.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Olaf was located at latitude 9.5\u00b0N and longitude 133.2\u00b0W which put it about 1620 miles (2610 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Olaf was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (155 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Hurricane Olaf consists of a small core of thunderstorms around the center of circulation and a primary rainband that spirals around the western and southern sides of the hurricane.\u00a0 The core of thunderstorms is producing some upper level divergence, but upper level winds are inhibiting the outflow on the western side of the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Olaf is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C and there is plenty of energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 However, an upper level trough north of Olaf is producing westerly winds which are blowing over the top of the hurricane.\u00a0 The upper level winds are blocking upper level outflow on the western side of Olaf and the vertical wind shear is inhibiting the intensification of Olaf.\u00a0 If the wind shear decreases, then further intensification will be possible.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Hurricane Olaf toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue for another day or two.\u00a0 When Olaf reaches the western end of the ridge, it will start to turn more toward the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The core of the circulation of Olaf consolidated on Sunday and the National Hurricane Center upgraded it to a hurricane.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Olaf was located at latitude 9.5\u00b0N and longitude 133.2\u00b0W which put it about 1620 miles (2610 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Olaf was moving toward […]<\/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":[247,248,23,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}