Hurricane Narda was spinning southwest of Baja California on Friday morning.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Narda was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 120.7\u00b0W which put the center about 835 miles (1340 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Narda was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 980 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Narda did not change much during the past 36 hours.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring near the center of Narda’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Hurricane Narda.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Narda generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The outflow of mass in the upper levels was nearly equal to the inflow of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure did not change much.<\/p>\n
The size of the circulation around Hurricane Narda did increase during the past 36 hours.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Narda’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 185 miles (295 km) from the center of Hurricane Narda.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Narda will move through an environment that will be somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Narda will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge that is over northwestern Mexico and the Eastern North Pacific will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Narda\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear will still inhibit intensification, but the wind shear may not be enough to stop intensification. Hurricane Narda could intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Narda will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over Mexico and the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Narda toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Narda will move farther away from Baja California.\u00a0 Narda is forecast to move toward the north during the weekend when it reaches the western end of the high pressure system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Narda was spinning southwest of Baja California on Friday morning.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Narda was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 120.7\u00b0W which put the center about 835 miles (1340 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Narda was moving toward the west at 15 […]<\/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":[159,39,158,3983,24,1718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203"}],"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=23203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23204,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions\/23204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}