A surface circulation organized quickly on Thursday in an area of thunderstorms southwest of Hawaii and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Pali.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Pali was located at latitude 4.7\u00b0N and longitude 171.2\u00b0W which put it about 1450 miles (2335 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pali was moving toward the north-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
Several well formed spiral bands developed within a large area of thunderstorms and the system exhibited sufficient organization to be classified as a tropical storm.\u00a0 Two of the inner spiral bands appear to be wrapping around the center of circulation and the inner core of Tropical Storm Pali is organizing quickly.\u00a0 A partial eyewall may be forming around the southern and western sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the core of Pali are generating upper level divergence, which is pumping out mass.<\/p>\n
The environment surrounding Tropical Storm Pali is favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Pali is generating southeasterly winds over the top of the tropical storm, but the vertical wind shear is not too strong.\u00a0 Pali is likely to intensify further during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 A period of rapid intensification may be possible, if the inner core consolidates around an eye.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge east of Pali is steering the tropical storm toward the north-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 However, the winds steering the storm are not too strong, and it may not move much during the next several days.<\/p>\n
Although the historical record of tropical storms over the Central Pacific is relatively short, it appears that Tropical Storm Pali may have reached tropical storm intensity at a lower latitude than any other tropical storm on record did in that region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A surface circulation organized quickly on Thursday in an area of thunderstorms southwest of Hawaii and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Pali.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Pali was located at latitude 4.7\u00b0N and longitude 171.2\u00b0W which put it about 1450 miles (2335 […]<\/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":[309,310,45,23,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}