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<\/a><\/p>\nThe inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of Isaias’ circulation.\u00a0 A circular eye with a diameter of 30 miles (50 km) formed at the center of Hurricane Isaias.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Isaias\u2019 circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Isaias generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Hurricane Isaias became more symmetrical on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 20 miles (30 km) from the center of Isaias’ circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 130 miles (210 km) from the center of Hurricane Isaias.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Isaias is 16.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 8.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 25.1.\u00a0 Hurricane Isaias is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Idalia when Idalia hit Florida in 2023.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Isaias will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 18 hours.\u00a0 Isaias will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southeastern part of an upper level trough that is over the South Central U.S.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce westerly winds that will blow toward the top of Isaias\u2019 circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Hurricane Isaias is likely to intensify during the next 18 hours.\u00a0 Isaias could strengthen to a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Isaias will move around the southeastern part of the upper level trough that is over the South Central U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 The upper level trough will steer Isaias toward the north-northeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Isaias will reach the northern Gulf Coast on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Isaias will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to the northern Gulf Coast.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Isaias will be capable of causing serious damage.\u00a0 Widespread electricity outages are likely.<\/p>\n
Flood Watches are in effect for parts of southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and Northwest Florida.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nIsaias could cause a storm surge of up to 12 feet (3.6 meters) along portions of the northern Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n
A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from the Mouth of the Mississippi River to Suwannee River, Florida.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Isaias intensified to Category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Isaias was located at latitude 24.4\u00b0N and longitude 89.3\u00b0W which put the center about 325 miles (525 km) south of the Mouth of the Mississippi River.\u00a0 Isaias was moving toward the northeast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[491,492,384,3747,3738,51,4175,2107,650,2104,4176,113,493,837,4250,1215,4177,3082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475"}],"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=25475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25477,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions\/25477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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