Hurricane Fausto strengthened a little more on Friday morning as it moved toward the Central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Fausto was located at latitude 18.6\u00b0N and longitude 131.2\u00b0W which put the center about 1560 miles (2510 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Fausto was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fausto continued to strengthen early on Friday.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 17 miles (28 km) was at the center of Fausto’s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Fausto’ circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Fausto generated more upper level divergence that pumped more mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The removal of more mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds around Hurricane Fausto became more symmetrical on Friday.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Fausto’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 185 miles (295 km) from the center of Hurricane Fausto.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fausto will move into an environment that will become unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Fausto will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 26\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 There is drier air just to the north and west of Hurricane Fausto.\u00a0 The drier air is likely to inhibit the development of new thunderstorms in bands in the northern and western parts of Fausto\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Hurricane Fausto is likely to weaken during the next 24 hours because of the effects of the drier air.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fausto will move around the southern 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 during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Fausto will continue to move toward the Central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 Fausto could be near the Hawaiian Islands by the middle of next week.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression Seven-E formed south of Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Depression Seven-E was located at latitude 9.0\u00b0N and longitude 100.5\u00b0W which put the center about 605 miles (975 km) south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.\u00a0 The tropical depression was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Fausto strengthened a little more on Friday morning as it moved toward the Central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Fausto was located at latitude 18.6\u00b0N and longitude 131.2\u00b0W which put the center about 1560 miles (2510 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Fausto was moving toward the west […]<\/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":[422,429,423,431,2139,23,1124,4178,24,2077,1685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783"}],"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=24783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24784,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions\/24784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}