Tropical Cyclone Pam continued to intensify on Wednesday and it is now the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Pam was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 170.2\u00b0E which put it about 200 miles northeast of Espiritu Santo and about 670 miles northwest of Fiji.\u00a0 Pam was moving toward the south-southeast at 6 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 160 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 937 mb.<\/p>\n
A large eye formed in the center of Pam and the strongest winds are occurring in the ring of thunderstorms surrounding the eye.\u00a0 Pam is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are fairly light.\u00a0 As a result, it has developed strong upper level outflow in most directions.\u00a0 The environment is favorable for further intensification, but strong tropical cyclones often go through eyewall replacement cycles which produce fluctuations in the intensity<\/p>\n
Pam is being steered southward by an subtropical ridge to the east of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 This general steering pattern is expected to continue during the next several days.\u00a0 The projected path of Pam takes the center east of Vanuatu and New Caledonia and west of Fiji.\u00a0 However, a slight deviation to the west could bring strong winds to some of the islands of Vanuatu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Pam continued to intensify on Wednesday and it is now the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Pam was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 170.2\u00b0E which put it about 200 miles northeast of Espiritu Santo and about […]<\/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\/515"}],"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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}