Hurricane Fausto continued to spin over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Fausto was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 120.3\u00b0W which put the center about 805 miles (1295 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Fausto was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (150 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fausto was showing signs of strengthening on Tuesday evening.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of Fausto’s circulation.\u00a0 A small eye was appearing in microwave satellite images.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Hurricane Fausto.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Fausto 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 size of the circulation around Hurricane Fausto increased on Tuesday.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of Fausto’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 160 miles (260 km) from the center of Hurricane Fausto.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fausto will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Fausto will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge that is southwest of Mexico.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Fausto will intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fausto will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system that is over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Fausto toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Fausto will continue to move farther away from Mexico.\u00a0 Fausto is likely to move over the Central Pacific Ocean during the upcoming weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Fausto continued to spin over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Fausto was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 120.3\u00b0W which put the center about 805 miles (1295 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Fausto was […]<\/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":[422,39,423,2139,4178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754"}],"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=24754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24755,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754\/revisions\/24755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}