Tropical Cyclone Hola passed near the Iles Loyaute (Loyalty Islands) on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Hola was located at latitude 20.9\u00b0S and longitude 168.0\u00b0E which put it about 175 miles (280 km) northeast of Noumea, New Caledonia.\u00a0 Hola was moving toward the southeast at 19 m.p.h. (31 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 969 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Hola exhibited signs of weakening on Friday.\u00a0 The eye appeared and disappeared intermittently.\u00a0 There were occasional breaks in the rings of thunderstorms around the intermittent eye.\u00a0 The distribution of rainbands became more asymmetrical.\u00a0 All of the stronger bands were south and east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The bands north and west of the center consisted primarily of showers and low clouds.\u00a0 An upper level trough off the east coast of Australia was producing northwesterly winds which were blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were also causing moderate vertical wind shear and they may have tilted the upper portion of the circulation toward the southeast.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Hola will weaken during the next few days.\u00a0 Hola will initially pass over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level trough will continue to cause moderate vertical wind shear which will weaken Hola.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Hola will also move over colder water when it moves farther to the south.\u00a0 The colder water and vertical wind shear will cause the structure of Tropical Cyclone Hola to transition gradually to an extratropical cyclone during the next several days.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough is pushing Tropical Cyclone Hola toward the southeast and a general southeasterly motion will continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Hola will move away from the Iles Loyaute and New Caledonia.\u00a0 Hola could approach northern New Zealand in a couple of days.<\/p>\n
The strongest winds and heavy rain were occurring on the eastern side of Tropical Cyclone Hola.\u00a0 Hola will continue to bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to the Iles Loyaute until it moves away.\u00a0 It should have minimal impacts on New Caledonia.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Hola could make landfall on the North Island of New Zealand in two or three days.\u00a0 It could be a strong extratropical cyclone at that time and it could bring strong wind and heavy rain to parts of northern New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Hola passed near the Iles Loyaute (Loyalty Islands) on Friday.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Hola was located at latitude 20.9\u00b0S and longitude 168.0\u00b0E which put it about 175 miles (280 km) northeast of Noumea, New Caledonia.\u00a0 Hola was moving toward the southeast at 19 m.p.h. (31 […]<\/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":[337,79,965,968,88,92,339,966,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618"}],"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=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5619,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}