Tropical Storm Dora intensified rapidly into a hurricane during the overnight hours.\u00a0 Dora is the first hurricane to develop over the Eastern North Pacific during 2017.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Dora was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 106.3\u00b0W which put it about 220 miles (350 km) south of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico.\u00a0 Dora was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (140 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Hurricane Dora is very well organized.\u00a0 A circular eye exists at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounds the eye.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms are revolving around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in Dora are generating well developed upper level divergence which is pumping large quantities of mass out in all directions.<\/p>\n
Dora is a small hurricane.\u00a0 Wind to hurricane force extend out about 25 miles (40 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 12.7.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 7.3.\u00a0 The Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 20.0.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Dora will move through an environment favorable for intensification for another 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 It is currently over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 Dora will move over SSTs that will gradually be cooler, but they should be warm enough to support further intensification for another 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Hurricane Dora is moving through an area where upper level winds are weak and there is almost no vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Dora is likely to strengthen further during the next few hours.\u00a0 Dora will move over much cooler SSTs when it passes south of Baja California and it will begin to weaken on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge to the north of Dora is steering the hurricane toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Hurricane Dora will pass south of Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Dora intensified rapidly into a hurricane during the overnight hours.\u00a0 Dora is the first hurricane to develop over the Eastern North Pacific during 2017.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Dora was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 106.3\u00b0W which put it about 220 miles (350 km) south of […]<\/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":[415,39,416,720,650,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147"}],"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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}