Tropical Storm Seymour rapidly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Monday as it moved farther away from Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Seymour was located at latitude 15.5\u00b0N and longitude 112.6\u00b0W which put it about 540 miles (870 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Seymour was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) and there wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Seymour intensified very rapidly on Monday.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed increased from 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) in a 24 hour period.\u00a0 The circulation contracted and the primary rainband wrapped tightly around a small eye.\u00a0 Seymour is a very small hurricane and hurricane force winds only extend out about 12 miles (19 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extend out about 70 miles (130 km) from the center.\u00a0 Although Seymour is a small hurricane, the circulation is well organized.\u00a0 The small eye is surrounded by an almost continuous ring of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Several other spiral bands are rotating around the core of Hurricane Seymour.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass in all directions.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Seymour will remain in a favorable environment on Tuesday.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Seymour is likely to intensify on Tuesday and it could become a major hurricane.\u00a0 When Seymour moves farther to the west, it will be nearer to an upper level trough which will produce southwesterly winds over the hurricane.\u00a0 Increased vertical wind shear will begin to weaken Hurricane Seymour.<\/p>\n
A ridge over Mexico is steering Hurricane Seymour toward the west and that general motion will occur for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Hurricane Seymour will approach the western end of the ridge on Wednesday, and the hurricane will turn more toward the north when that happens.\u00a0 On its anticipated track this turn will occur well to the west of Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Seymour rapidly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Monday as it moved farther away from Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Seymour was located at latitude 15.5\u00b0N and longitude 112.6\u00b0W which put it about 540 miles (870 km) south-southwest of the southern tip […]<\/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":[251,39,108,252,558,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}