After intensifying into a hurricane on Thursday, Hurricane Hermine is making landfall near St. Marks, Florida.\u00a0 At midnight EDT the center of Hurricane Hermine was located at latitude 29.8\u00b0N and longitude 84.2\u00b0W which put it about 20 miles (30 km) south of St. Marks, Florida.\u00a0 Hermine was moving toward the north-northeast at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (155 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Suwannee River to Mexico Beach, Florida.\u00a0 A Hurricane Watch is in effect from Anclote River to Suwannee River and from Mexico Beach to the Walton County\/Bay County line.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from Englewood to Suwannee River and from Mexico Beach to the Walton County\/Bay County line.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is also in effect from the Flagler County\/Volusia County line to Duck, North Carolina including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from Duck, North Carolina to Sandy Hook, New Jersey including the Chesapeake Bay from Smith Point southward and southern Delaware Bay.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Hurricane Hermine organized quickly on Thursday.\u00a0 It developed an eye with a mostly complete eyewall.\u00a0 Spiral rainbands developed with strong winds in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Upper level divergence to the east of Hermine pumped out mass and allowed the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 The circulation is still asymmetrical with most of the stronger winds east of the center, but it looks a lot more typical of hurricanes that move toward the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Hermine will weaken after it makes landfall.\u00a0 It could interact with a cold front moving into the southeastern U.S.\u00a0 It is possible that Hermine could develop a hybrid structure that is part tropical and part extratropical.\u00a0 Hermine could have winds to tropical storm force as it passes over the Mid-Atlantic coast.\u00a0 The stronger winds are likely to be out over the Atlantic Ocean and winds should be weaker farther inland.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough is steering Hurricane Hermine toward the north-northeast and a general northeasterly motion is expected to continue for another 36 hours.\u00a0 Later in the weekend a surface high pressure system could move north of Hermine and stall its progress.\u00a0 Hermine could be stationary for a time.\u00a0 On its anticipated track center of Hermine is likely to pass east of Tallahassee, Florida.\u00a0 The center could pass north of Savannah, Georgia before coming near Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Hermine is likely to move near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and out into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Hermine is capable of causing regional minor wind damage.\u00a0 It is likely to cause widespread power outages.\u00a0 The coast of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico is susceptible to storm surges and high water will effect that area overnight.\u00a0 Locally heavy rainfall will create the potential for flooding.\u00a0 When rainbands move ashore, wind shear could spin up tornadoes.\u00a0 As Hermine moves near the Mid-Atlantic coast, easterly winds could cause water rises.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Hermine is 11.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 14.0.\u00a0 The Hurricane Wind Intensity SIze Index (HWISI) is 25.5.\u00a0 These indices are very similar to the ones for Hurricane Isaac before it hit the coast of Louisiana n 2012.\u00a0 The HII for Isaac was 11.5.\u00a0 Its HSI was 16.7 and its HWISI was 28.2.\u00a0 This means that Hurricane Hermine is as strong and just smaller than Hurricane Isaac was just before it made landfall.\u00a0 Hurricane Isaac did hit a more populated and more built up region.\u00a0 Hurricane Isaac did 970 million dollars worth of insured damage.\u00a0 It caused 407 million dollars to be paid out for flood insurance.\u00a0 It is estimated that Hurricane Isaac caused 2.35 billion dollars worth of damage in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After intensifying into a hurricane on Thursday, Hurricane Hermine is making landfall near St. Marks, Florida.\u00a0 At midnight EDT the center of Hurricane Hermine was located at latitude 29.8\u00b0N and longitude 84.2\u00b0W which put it about 20 miles (30 km) south of St. Marks, Florida.\u00a0 Hermine was moving toward the north-northeast at 14 m.p.h. (22 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[491,492,505,497,51,98,503,504,496,507,123,206,100,506,99,213,498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926"}],"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=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}