Former Tropical Depression One-C strengthened to Tropical Storm Iona over the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Iona was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 148.3\u00b0W which put the center about 965 miles (1545 km) southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Iona was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 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 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Depression One-C strengthened to Tropical Storm Iona over the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 More stronger thunderstorms formed near the center of Iona’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also occurring in bands revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Iona.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Iona started to generate upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
The strongest winds were occurring in the northern half of Tropical Storm Iona.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 35 miles (55 km) in the northern side of Iona’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the southern half of Tropical Storm Iona were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Iona will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Iona will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge over the Central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Iona’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 Iona will intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Iona will move around the southern side of a high pressure system over the Central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Iona toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Iona will pass south of Hawaii on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Depression One-C strengthened to Tropical Storm Iona over the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Iona was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 148.3\u00b0W which put the center about 965 miles (1545 km) southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Iona was moving […]<\/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":[309,310,23,1141,3952,3951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719"}],"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=22719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22720,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22719\/revisions\/22720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}