{"id":25748,"date":"2026-11-09T03:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25748"},"modified":"2026-11-09T03:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:28:39","slug":"tropical-storm-pena-moves-south-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25748","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Pena Moves South of Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena moved south of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 11.4\u00b0N and longitude 157.6\u00b0W which put the center about 540 miles (870 km) south-southwest of South Point, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pena was moving toward the west at 8 m.p.h. (15 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

Tropical Storm Pena weakened on Sunday as it moved south of Hawaii.<\/p>\n

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Thunderstorms were still occurring near the center of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also present in bands in the northern and eastern periphery of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western and southern parts of Tropical Storm Pena consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Pena generated less upper level divergence that pumped less mass away from the tropical storm.\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 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 Pena’s circulation.\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 that will be somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Pena will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the eastern part of an upper level trough that is southwest of Hawaii.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Pena\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those upper level winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The moderate vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the wind shear may not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pena could intensify a little during the next 24 hours, if the upper level winds do not get any stronger.<\/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 remain far to the south of Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena moved south of Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 11.4\u00b0N and longitude 157.6\u00b0W which put the center about 540 miles (870 km) south-southwest of South Point, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pena was moving toward the west at 8 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 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":[4291,4292,23,4290,3291,4289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748"}],"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=25748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25750,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions\/25750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}