Hurricane Seymour strengthened into a small but very powerful Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Seymour was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 117.7\u00b0W which put it about 690 miles (1110 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0\u00a0 Seymour was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 175 m.p.h. (280 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 943 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Hurricane Seymour is very small, but it is very well organized.\u00a0 There is a circular eye with a diameter of 10 miles (12 km) which is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force only extend out about 18 miles (29 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 80 miles (130 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) is 31.6, but the Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is only 7.1.\u00a0 The Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index is 38.7.\u00a0 Hurricane Seymour is not as strong as Hurricane Patricia was in 2015 and Seymour is smaller than Patricia was.\u00a0 When Hurricane Patricia had maximum sustained winds of 200 m.p.h. (320 km) its HSI ranged between 11.3 and 13.8.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Seymour will remain in a very favorable environment for another 6 to 12 hours.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds will be light and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Later on Wednesday the upper level winds will increase and Hurricane Seymour will begin to move over cooler SSTs.\u00a0 The increasingly unfavorable environment will cause Seymour to weaken.\u00a0 Because of the small size of Seymour’s circulation, wind shear could cause the hurricane to weaken quickly.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Seymour is moving around the western end of a ridge that is steering the hurricane toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 When Seymour reaches the western end of the ridge, the hurricane will begin to move more toward the north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Seymour will weaken well to the west of Baja California.\u00a0 An upper level trough moving over the Northern Pacific Ocean could eventually transport some of the moisture from Hurricane Seymour over the western U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Seymour strengthened into a small but very powerful Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Seymour was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 117.7\u00b0W which put it about 690 miles (1110 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0\u00a0 Seymour was […]<\/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\/3328"}],"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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}