Tropical Cyclone Amos intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Thursday as it moved eastward across the South Pacific.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Amos was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0S and longitude 177.1\u00b0W which put it about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Iles Wallis.\u00a0 Amos was moving toward the east-northeast at 11 m.p.h. (18 km\/h).\u00a0 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 974 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Amos is a small, tightly organized storm.\u00a0 A primary band of thunderstorms wraps almost entirely around the center of circulation and an eyelike feature is visible intermittently on satellite imagery.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms are spiraling around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass in all directions and causing the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The environment around Tropical Cyclone Amos is very favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are very weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Amos will continue to intensify on Friday and it could intensify rapidly.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Amos is steering the tropical cyclone toward the east and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Amos will pass near Iles Wallis on Friday.\u00a0 Although the core of strongest winds will pass north of Iles Wallis, It could still bring strong winds, heavy rain and large waves to those islands.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Amos could be approaching western Samoa within 36 hours.\u00a0 It could be a very strong tropical cyclone at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Amos intensified to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon on Thursday as it moved eastward across the South Pacific.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Amos was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0S and longitude 177.1\u00b0W which put it about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Iles Wallis.\u00a0 Amos 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":[76,2],"tags":[357,89,359,360,306,301,358,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"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=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}