Upper level winds blowing from the east over the top of Pali weakened the tropical storm on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Pali was located at latitude 7.7\u00b0N and longitude 174.5\u00b0W which put it about 1450 miles (2335 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pali was moving toward the west at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
A narrow upper level ridge is generating easterly winds that are blowing over the top of Tropical Storm Pali.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear produced by those winds caused the structure of Pali to become asymmetrical on Saturday.\u00a0 Most of the stronger thunderstorms formed west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 There are rainbands east of the center, but they are not as tall as the bands in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Occasionally, when the wind shear lessens, new thunderstorms form closer to the center of circulation.\u00a0 At times the wind shear also causes the circulation to tilt toward the west with height.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pali is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is sufficient energy in the upper ocean to support intensification, if the wind shear decreases.\u00a0 However, if the wind shear stays at its current magnitude, slow weakening will continue.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Pali is embedded in a larger trough of low pressure.\u00a0 As a result the steering winds are relatively weak.\u00a0 The easterly winds are slowly pushing Pali toward the west.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue for another day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Pali could meander over the Central Pacific well southwest of Hawaii for a few more days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Upper level winds blowing from the east over the top of Pali weakened the tropical storm on Saturday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Pali was located at latitude 7.7\u00b0N and longitude 174.5\u00b0W which put it about 1450 miles (2335 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pali was moving toward 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":[309,310,45,23,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}