{"id":25726,"date":"2026-11-06T22:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25726"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:32:58","slug":"tropical-storm-pena-forms-southeast-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25726","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Pena Forms Southeast of Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena formed southeast of Hawaii on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 11.3\u00b0N and longitude 150.1\u00b0W which put the center about 650 miles (1045 km) southeast of South Point, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pena was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n

A low pressure system over the Central North Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii strengthened on Friday afternoon and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Pena.<\/p>\n

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The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the eastern side of the center of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Pena 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 strongest winds were occurring in the northeastern part of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 45 miles (75 km) in the northeastern quadrant of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 The winds in the other parts of Tropical Storm Pena were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Pena will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Pena will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C. It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pena is very likely to intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Pena could move into a region where there is more vertical wind shear on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Pena will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over the Central North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Pena toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Pena will pass south of Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena formed southeast of Hawaii on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 11.3\u00b0N and longitude 150.1\u00b0W which put the center about 650 miles (1045 km) southeast of South Point, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pena was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[4291,4292,23,4290,3291,4289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726"}],"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=25726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25728,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions\/25728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}