Hurricane Sandra intensified quickly into a major hurricane on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Sandra was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0W which put it about 685 miles (1100 km) south of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Sandra was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) which made Sandra a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale and qualified it as a major hurricane.\u00a0 There were wind gusts to 140 m.p.h. (225 km\/h) and the minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.\u00a0 Sandra is the ninth major hurricane to form over the Eastern North Pacific during 2015, which is a new record for that basin.<\/p>\n
Sandra is a small well organized hurricane.\u00a0 It has a well defined eye surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms, but hurricane force winds only extend out about 25 miles (40 km) from the center.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Sandra are producing upper level divergence which is pumping out mass and allowing the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 Sandra is an environment that favors further intensification.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Sandra could become a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Sandra is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge to the east of it.\u00a0 Sandra turned toward the northwest on Wednesday and it will gradually start moving more toward the north on Thursday.\u00a0 A large deepening upper level trough off the west coast of North American will create southwesterly winds that will start to steer Sandra toward the northeast on Friday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Sandra will approach the southern tip of Baja California on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Sandra intensified quickly into a major hurricane on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Sandra was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 109.9\u00b0W which put it about 685 miles (1100 km) south of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Sandra was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 […]<\/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":[288,39,289,291,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986"}],"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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}