Tropical Storm Hone moved southeast of Hawaii on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Hone was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0N and longitude 153.2\u00b0W which put the center about 185 miles (300 km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. \u00a0 Hone was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 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. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for Hawaii County (the Big Island).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hone continued to strengthen gradually on Saturday.\u00a0 The low level circulation of Tropical Storm Hone remained well organized and very symmetrical.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the eastern side of the center of Hone\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Hone.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was nearly balanced by the inflow of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 The balanced transport of mass caused the surface pressure to remain steady.<\/p>\n Even though the low level circulation of Tropical Storm Hone was very symmetrical, the distribution of wind speeds was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 125 miles (200 km) in the northern side of Hone\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) in the southern side of Tropical Storm Hone.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hone will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Hone will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C. It will move under the southern side of an upper level ridge centered west of Hawaii.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Hone’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hone is likely to intensify gradually during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hone will move around the southern side of a subtropical high pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific and Central Pacific.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Hone toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center Tropical Storm Hone will pass just south of Hawaii County (the Big Island) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n Even though the center of Tropical Storm Hone is likely to pass south of Hawaii, it could bring winds to tropical storm force to Hawaii County.\u00a0 Hone could also produce locally heavy rain.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Hurricane Gilma churned westward over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean east of Hawaii.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Gilma was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0N and longitude 130.9\u00b0W which put the center about 1585 miles (2555 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Gilma was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 968 mb.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Hone moved southeast of Hawaii on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Hone was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0N and longitude 153.2\u00b0W which put the center about 185 miles (300 km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. \u00a0 Hone was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[309,429,310,431,1108,23,3687,1124,3686,3684,3685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20934"}],"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=20934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20935,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20934\/revisions\/20935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}