{"id":25770,"date":"2026-11-12T03:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25770"},"modified":"2026-11-12T03:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:20:47","slug":"tropical-storm-pena-still-churning-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25770","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Pena Still Churning West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tropical Storm Pena was still churning westward over the Central North Pacific Ocean far to the southwest of Hawaii on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 9.8\u00b0N and longitude 170.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1160 miles (1865 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Pena was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 was showing evidence of weakening on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 Pena was moving into a large mass of drier air that was east of the International Date Line.\u00a0 It was also moving under the eastern side of an upper level trough that was near the International Date Line.\u00a0 The upper level trough was producing southwesterly winds that were blowing toward the top of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The drier\u00a0 air and moderate vertical wind shear were causing Tropical Storm Pena to start to weaken.<\/p>\n

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The drier air and moderate vertical wind shear were also beginning to affect the structure of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands in the eastern side of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western side 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 nearly equal to the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure did not change much on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The strongest winds were occurring in bands of thunderstorms in the northeastern part of Tropical Storm Pena.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 115 miles (185 km) in the northeastern quadrant of Pena’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds were blowing at less than tropical storm force in the other parts of Tropical Storm Pena.<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Pena will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Pena will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level trough near the International Date line will continue to cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pena will also continue to move through the large mass of drier air that is east of the International Date Line.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Pena is likely to weaken on Thursday because of the moderate vertical wind shear and the drier air.<\/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 was still churning westward over the Central North Pacific Ocean far to the southwest of Hawaii on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Pena was located at latitude 9.8\u00b0N and longitude 170.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1160 miles (1865 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.\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":[4291,4292,23,1141,4290,4289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770"}],"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=25770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25772,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770\/revisions\/25772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}