Tropical Cyclone Pam continued to intensify quickly on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Pam was located at latitude 11.0\u00b0S and longitude 169.8\u00b0E which put it about 710 miles northwest of Fiji and about 220 miles north-northeast of Espiritu Santo.\u00a0 Pam was moving toward the southwest at 5 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 135 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 948 mb.<\/p>\n
Pam remains in a very favorable environment.\u00a0 It is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and it is in a region of light upper level winds.\u00a0 The strong core of the tropical cyclone has generated well developed upper level outflow that is pumping out mass in all directions.\u00a0 Unless it is interrupted by an eyewall replacement cycle, the intensification is likely to continue.<\/p>\n
Pam is being steering toward the south by a subtropical ridge located to its east.\u00a0 The ridge strengthened slightly on Tuesday and pushed the tropical cyclone slightly to the west of the projected track.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to continue to steer Pam toward the south during the next few days.\u00a0 The projected track continues to predict that Pam will move east of Vanuatu and New Caledonia and west of Fiji.\u00a0 However, a further deviation to the west could bring the circulation closer to Vanuatu.\u00a0 Because of the intensify and large size of the circulation, impacts could be serious if Pam moves over any islands.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Cyclone Pam continued to intensify quickly on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Pam was located at latitude 11.0\u00b0S and longitude 169.8\u00b0E which put it about 710 miles northwest of Fiji and about 220 miles north-northeast of Espiritu Santo.\u00a0 Pam was moving toward the southwest at 5 m.p.h.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,2],"tags":[89,88,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}