Hurricane Pali weakened quickly on Wednesday as it moved closer to the Equator and it is now classified as a tropical storm.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Pali was located at latitude 2.7\u00b0N and longitude 172.2\u00b0W which put it about 330 miles (530 km) east-northeast of Howland Island.\u00a0 Pali was moving toward the south-southwest at 9 m.p.h. (17 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. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n
As Hurricane Pali moved closer to the Equator, it moved into an area of strong vertical wind shear and weakened.\u00a0 A large area of thunderstorms east-northeast of Samoa could be consolidating into a new tropical cyclone.\u00a0 That area of thunderstorms is generating a lot of upper level divergence which is spreading across the Equator as strong upper level winds from the south.\u00a0 Those upper level winds created strong vertical wind shear over Pali as the hurricane moved south on Wednesday.\u00a0 The wind shear pushed the upper portion of Tropical Storm Pali toward the north and disrupted the vertical integrity of Pali’s circulation.\u00a0 The lack of vertical integrity resulted in a significant decrease in the surface wind speed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The environment around Tropical Storm Pali will be unfavorable for intensification for the next several days.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will continue and it could increase if a tropical cyclone develops east of Samoa.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pali is expected to continue to weaken on Thursday.\u00a0 However, if the surface circulation remains intact for another 48 hours, the wind shear could decrease during the weekend.\u00a0 The Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C and so there is sufficient energy to support intensification, if the upper level winds decrease.\u00a0 If there is still a surface circulation on Saturday, then it could begin to reorganize and get stronger.\u00a0 Alternatively, if the wind shear gets stronger, Tropical Storm Pali could dissipate over the weekend.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the northwest of Pali is steering the tropical storm toward the south.\u00a0 As Pali weakens, the low level circulation will be steered more by winds closer to the surface.\u00a0 Those winds are blowing from the east and Tropical Storm Pali or its remnants are expected to move toward the west during the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Pali weakened quickly on Wednesday as it moved closer to the Equator and it is now classified as a tropical storm.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Pali was located at latitude 2.7\u00b0N and longitude 172.2\u00b0W which put it about 330 miles (530 km) east-northeast of Howland Island.\u00a0 Pali […]<\/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":[309,310,319,320,126,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129"}],"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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}