Former Tropical Storm Iona rapidly intensified to a hurricane over the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Iona was located at latitude 10.7\u00b0N and longitude 150.1\u00b0W which put the center about 895 miles (1440 km) southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Iona was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h). The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Iona rapidly intensified to a hurricane over the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii on Monday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of Hurricane Iona.\u00a0 An eye appeared to be developing at the center of Iona’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Hurricane Iona.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Iona generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Hurricane Iona was small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 20 miles (30 km) from the center of Iona’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Hurricane Iona.<\/p>\n
Hurricane 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\u2019s 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 Hurricane Iona will intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Hurricane 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, Hurricane Iona will pass south of Hawaii on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Central Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression Two-C formed east-northeast of Hurricane Iona.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Two-C was located at latitude 12.0\u00b0N and longitude 143.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1140 miles (1840 km) east-southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Two-C was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1008 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Iona rapidly intensified to a hurricane over the Central Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Iona was located at latitude 10.7\u00b0N and longitude 150.1\u00b0W which put the center about 895 miles (1440 km) southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Iona was moving toward […]<\/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":[309,3955,310,3956,23,1141,3953,3952,3954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723"}],"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=22723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22724,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723\/revisions\/22724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}