Tropical Cyclone Amos weakened as it sped past Samoa on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Amos was located at latitude 14.0\u00b0S and longitude 169.1\u00b0W which put it about 15 miles (25 km) north of Luma, Samoa.\u00a0 Amos was moving toward the southeast at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 970 mb.<\/p>\n
A ridge of high pressure east of Amos produced strong northwesterly winds which steered the tropical cyclone rapidly to the east-southeast on Saturday.\u00a0 Those steering winds carried the core of Amos just north of the larger islands of Samoa.\u00a0 Since hurricane force winds only extended out about 20 miles (30 km) from the center of circulation, the stronger winds stayed mostly over the open water.\u00a0 A weather station in Pago Pago, Samoa reported a wind gust of 54 m.p.h. (87 km\/h).<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Amos is currently bringing wind and rain to the Manua Islands of eastern Samoa which include Olosega, Ofu and Ta’u.\u00a0 The rapid forward motion of Amos means that conditions should improve within a few hours.<\/p>\n
The strong northwesterly winds are causing significant vertical wind shear that is rapidly weakening Tropical Cyclone Amos.\u00a0 Amos is still moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C, but the vertical wind shear should continue to weaken the tropical cyclone as it moves farther east of Samoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Amos weakened as it sped past Samoa on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Amos was located at latitude 14.0\u00b0S and longitude 169.1\u00b0W which put it about 15 miles (25 km) north of Luma, Samoa.\u00a0 Amos was moving toward the southeast at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[357,306,301,358,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"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=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}