Former Tropical Storm Karina strengthened to a hurricane as it moved over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Karina was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 121.1\u00b0W which put the center about 820 miles (1325 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Karina was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 980 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Karina strengthened to a hurricane on Saturday night.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the western and southern sides of the center of Karina’s circulation.\u00a0 An eye appeared to be forming at the center of Hurricane Karina.<\/p>\n
The distribution of thunderstorms in Hurricane Karina was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were mostly occurring in bands in the southern half of Karina’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the northern half of Hurricane Karina consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Karina 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 strongest winds were occurring in the northeastern part of Hurricane Karina.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 25 miles (40 km) in the northeastern quadrant of Karina’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 230 miles (370 km) from the center of Hurricane Karina.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Karina will move through an environment mostly favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Karina will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 However, there is a mass of drier air just to the west and north of Hurricane Karina.\u00a0 The drier air will inhibit intensification of Karina, but the drier air probably will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Hurricane Karina is likely to intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Karina could intensify rapidly at times, if the drier air does not get pulled into its circulation.\u00a0 Karina strengthen to a major hurricane by Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Karina 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 Karina toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Karina will move farther away from Baja California.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Lowell was moving west toward the Central Pacific.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Lowell was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 139.1\u00b0W which put the center about 1150 miles (1850 km) east-southeast Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Lowell was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Karina strengthened to a hurricane as it moved over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Karina was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 121.1\u00b0W which put the center about 820 miles (1325 km) west-southwest of the […]<\/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":[456,150,39,457,470,23,1124,4216,2209,2242,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085"}],"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=25085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25086,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085\/revisions\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}