Tropical Cyclone Hola stalled between Vanuatu and New Caledonia on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Hola was located at latitude 18.4\u00b0S and longitude 165.5\u00b0E which put it about 200 miles (320 km) west of Port Vila, Vanuatu.\u00a0 Hola was moving toward the south at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 961 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Hola weakened slightly while it move slowly between Vanuatu and New Caledonia.\u00a0 The small eye was no longer visible on satellite images.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Most of the bands of showers and thunderstorms were in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 There were fewer thunderstorms west of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The wind field exhibited a similar asymmetrical distribution.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 150 miles (240 km) in the eastern half of the circulation and about 100 miles (160 km) in the western half of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Hola will move through an environment marginally favorable for intensification on Friday.\u00a0 Hola will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough east of Australia will produce northwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause increasing vertical wind shear and the shear could become strong enough to inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Hola could intensify during the next 12 to 24 hours, but it will begin to weaken when the shear increases.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Hola is near the western end of a subtropical ridge and it was in a region where the steering winds were weak on Thursday.\u00a0 The upper level trough east of Australia will start to steer Hola toward the southeast on Friday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Cyclone Hola could approach the Iles Loyaute (the Loyalty Islands) within 24 hours.\u00a0 Hola will likely still be the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Hola stalled between Vanuatu and New Caledonia on Thursday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Hola was located at latitude 18.4\u00b0S and longitude 165.5\u00b0E which put it about 200 miles (320 km) west of Port Vila, Vanuatu.\u00a0 Hola was moving toward the south at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/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":[337,79,965,968,88,92,339,967,966,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613"}],"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=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}