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<\/a><\/p>\nA circular eye with a diameter of 10 miles (16 km) was at the center of Hurricane Simon.\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 Simon\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Simon generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was less than the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure increased on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Hurricane Simon was very small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of Simon\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of Hurricane Simon.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Simon is 25.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 8.2 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 33.3. Hurricane Simon is similar in intensity to Hurricane Harvey when Harvey hit Texas in 2017.\u00a0 Simon is smaller than Harvey was.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Simon will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Simon will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge that is over Mexico and the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 However, Hurricane Simon is likely to pull some drier air that is over Mexico into its circulation because Simon will remain very close to Mexico.\u00a0 The drier air will inhibit the formation of new thunderstorms in the eastern and northern parts of Simon’s circulation.\u00a0 Hurricane Simon is likely to weaken on Monday because of the effects of the drier air.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Simon will move around the western part of a high pressure system that is over Mexico.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Simon toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the core of Hurricane Simon will remain just to the west of Mexico on Monday.\u00a0 The center of Simon’s circulation will pass just to the west of Cabo Corrientes on Sunday night.\u00a0 The core of Hurricane Simon will be near Las Islas Marias on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Bands in the eastern side of Hurricane Simon will continue to bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to the west coast of Mexico.\u00a0 The strongest winds and heaviest rains will occur in Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
The core of Hurricane Simon will pass near Las Islas Marias on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 Simon will bring strong winds and heavy rain to those islands.\u00a0 Flash floods are likely to occur in some locations.\u00a0 Hurricane Simon could cause a storm surge of up to 13 feet (4 meters) along parts of coast of Las Islas Marias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The core of Hurricane Simon stayed just to the west of the west coast of Mexico on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Simon was located at latitude 19.6\u00b0N and longitude 105.8\u00b0W which put the center about 55 miles (90 km) south of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico. \u00a0 Simon was moving […]<\/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":[251,1039,569,3132,252,4252,650,568,3105,1027,24,2526,2525,2521,4249,4259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517"}],"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=25517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25519,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions\/25519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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