{"id":25104,"date":"2026-09-01T03:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25104"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:22:11","slug":"karina-and-lowell-churn-westward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25104","title":{"rendered":"Karina and Lowell Churn Westward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Karina and Tropical Storm Lowell were churning westward over the North Pacific Ocean on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

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At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Karina was located at latitude 17.8\u00b0N and longitude 126.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1135 miles (1830 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Karina was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 155 m.p.h. (250 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 950 mb.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Karina maintained its intensity on Monday as it churned west over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 12 miles (19 km) was at the center of Karina’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 core of Karina\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Karina generated upper level divergence that pumped large amounts of mass away from the hurricane. The removal of mass in the upper levels was nearly equal to the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure was nearly constant on Monday.<\/p>\n

The distribution of wind speeds in Hurricane Karina was fairly symmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 30 miles (50 km) from the center of Karina\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 115 miles (185 km) from the center of Hurricane Karina.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Karina will move through an environment favorable for a strong hurricane 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 Hurricane Karina is likely to maintain its intensity on Tuesday.<\/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 continue to move farther away from Baja California.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Lowell intensified gradually on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Lowell was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 147.4\u00b0W which put the center about 690 miles (1110 km) 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 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Karina and Tropical Storm Lowell were churning westward over the North Pacific Ocean on Monday evening. At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Karina was located at latitude 17.8\u00b0N and longitude 126.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1135 miles (1830 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Karina 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":[456,150,39,457,470,23,1124,4216,2209,2242,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104"}],"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=25104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25106,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions\/25106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}