{"id":25761,"date":"2026-11-11T04:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25761"},"modified":"2026-11-11T04:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:49:14","slug":"tropical-storm-pena-strengthens-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25761","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Pena Strengthens a Little"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena strengthened a little on Tuesday as it moved over the Central North Pacific Ocean far to the southwest of Hawaii.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 10.5\u00b0N and longitude 166.0\u00b0W which put the center about 920 miles (1480 km) southwest of Honolulu, 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 strengthened a little on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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More thunderstorms developed near the center of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also occurring in bands in the northern part of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the southern part of Tropical Storm Pena consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Pena generated a little more upper level divergence that pumped a little more mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of a little more mass caused the surface pressure to decrease slightly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The strongest winds were occurring in the northern side of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) in the northern half of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the southern half 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 through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 However, Tropical Storm Pena will move into a large mass of drier air that is east of the International Date Line.\u00a0 The drier air will inhibit the formation of new thunderstorms.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pena could intensify a little more on Wednesday in spite of the drier air.\u00a0 However, the drier air is forecast to cause Pena to weaken later this week.<\/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 continue to move farther away from Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena strengthened a little on Tuesday as it moved over the Central North Pacific Ocean far to the southwest of Hawaii.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 10.5\u00b0N and longitude 166.0\u00b0W which put the center about 920 miles (1480 km) southwest of Honolulu, […]<\/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":[4291,4292,23,1141,4290,4289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761"}],"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=25761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25763,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions\/25763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}