Hurricane Fernanda weakened slowly as it moved farther west over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Fernanda was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 129.2\u00b0W which put it about 1440 miles (2315 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Fernanda was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 140 m.p.h. (220 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 960 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fernanda completed at least one eyewall replacement cycle in which an outer eyewall formed around the original eyewall.\u00a0 Eventually, the inner eyewall dissipated and a larger eye formed inside the outer eyewall.\u00a0 The eyewall replacement cycle weakened Hurricane Fernanda when the stronger, inner eyewall dissipated.\u00a0 Although Hurricane Fernanda is weaker, it is still a powerful hurricane.\u00a0 There is a circular eye at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms still surrounds the eye and the strongest winds are occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms are revolving around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Hurricane Fernanda are generating strong upper level divergence which are pumping out mass in all directions.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fernanda is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Fernanda will gradually move over cooler SSTs.\u00a0 When Fernanda moves over the cooler SSTs, it will extract less energy from the ocean and the hurricane will continue to weaken.\u00a0 The weakening could occur very gradually because the wind shear is limited.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Fernanda is moving south of a subtropical high pressure system which is steering the hurricane toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 The subtropical high is expected to steer Fernanda toward the west-northwest during the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Fernanda weakened slowly as it moved farther west over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Fernanda was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 129.2\u00b0W which put it about 1440 miles (2315 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Fernanda was moving […]<\/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":[422,39,423,23,728,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263"}],"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=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}