A cluster of thunderstorms between Hawaii and Mexico developed enough organization on Friday night that the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Madeline.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Madeline was located at latitude 13.9\u00b0N and longitude 137.4\u00b0W which put it about 1235 miles (1990 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Madeline was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Madeline is still organizing.\u00a0 A primary spiral band wraps around the western side of the circulation.\u00a0 There are additional spiral bands of the thunderstorms in the southern part of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The thunderstorms in the primary rainband are generating upper level divergence which it pumping mass out primarily to the west of tropical storm Madeline.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Madeline is moving through an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Madeline is expected to intensify steadily and it could become a hurricane by the end of the weekend.\u00a0 In a few days Madeline will move over cooler SSTs and into an area where the is more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 When that happens, Madeline will start to weaken.<\/p>\n
A subtropical high is steering Tropical Storm Madeline toward the west-northwest and a general west-northwest or westerly motion is expected to continue during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Madeline could approach the Hawaiian Islands in about five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A cluster of thunderstorms between Hawaii and Mexico developed enough organization on Friday night that the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Madeline.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Madeline was located at latitude 13.9\u00b0N and longitude 137.4\u00b0W which put it about 1235 miles (1990 km) east-southeast […]<\/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":[159,158,23,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863"}],"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=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}