One time Tropical Storm Kenneth rapidly intensified into a hurricane on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Kenneth was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0N and longitude 128.4\u00b0W which put it about 1290 miles (2075 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Kenneth was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (150 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 980 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Hurricane Kenneth improved significantly during the past few hours.\u00a0 A small circular eye emerged at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds are occurring in this ring of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms intensified south and east of the center.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the core of Kenneth were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the hurricane.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Kenneth will continue to move through an environment favorable for intensification on Monday.\u00a0 Kenneth will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 Hurricane Kenneth is moving through a region where the winds in the upper levels are weak and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Kenneth could continue to intensify for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 The speed of the upper level winds could increase in a day or so, and more vertical wind shear would inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Eventually Hurricane Kenneth will move over cooler SSTs and start to weaken.<\/p>\n
Kenneth if moving south of a subtropical ridge which is steering the hurricane toward the west.\u00a0 The ridge is forecast to continue to steer Kenneth westward for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Hurricane Kenneth will turn toward the north when it reaches the western end of the ridge.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Kenneth would pose no direct threat to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One time Tropical Storm Kenneth rapidly intensified into a hurricane on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Kenneth was located at latitude 16.2\u00b0N and longitude 128.4\u00b0W which put it about 1290 miles (2075 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Kenneth was moving toward the west at 14 […]<\/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":[151,39,108,486,23,783],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552"}],"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=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}