Hurricane Kiko weakened east of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Kiko was located at latitude 18.1\u00b0N and longitude 145.5\u00b0W which put the center about 635 miles (1025 km) east of Hilo Hawaii. Kiko was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 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 974 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Kiko weakened east of Hawaii on Sunday as it moved over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was near 26\u00b0C.\u00a0 A circular eye was still present at the center of Kiko’s circulation, but low clouds were starting to appear inside the eye.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Kiko generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 However, more mass was converging in the lower levels of the atmosphere than was being pumped away in the upper levels.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure was increasing.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Hurricane Kiko was small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of Kiko\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) from the center of Hurricane Kiko.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Zeta was 19.2.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 9.1 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 28.3. Hurricane Kiko was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Zeta when Zeta hit Louisiana in 2020.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Kiko will move through an environment that will become even more unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Kiko will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 26\u00b0C.\u00a0 The water just to the north of Kiko\u2019s forecast track is even colder. It will move under the southeastern part of an upper level low that is north of Hawaii.\u00a0 The upper level low will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Kiko’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase.\u00a0 The combination of marginal Sea Surface Temperatures and more vertical wind shear will cause Hurricane Kiko to continue to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Kiko will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Kiko toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Kiko will be northeast of Hawaii on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Kiko weakened east of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Kiko was located at latitude 18.1\u00b0N and longitude 145.5\u00b0W which put the center about 635 miles (1025 km) east of Hilo Hawaii. Kiko was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[456,457,23,1124,1677,650,1674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063"}],"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=23063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23064,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063\/revisions\/23064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}