Powerful Hurricane Hector passed south of Hawaii on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Hector was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0N and longitude 156.8\u00b0W which put it about 325 miles (525 km) south-southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hector was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 135 m.p.h. (220 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 959 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Hurricane Hector remained circular and symmetrical.\u00a0 Information from radar and satellites indicated that Hurricane Hector had a double eyewall structure.\u00a0 There was a small inner eye surrounded by an inner eyewall.\u00a0 The inner eyewall was thin and it appeared to be weakening.\u00a0 A clear area, sometimes called a moat, surrounded the inner eyewall.\u00a0 A second thicker eyewall surrounded the moat.\u00a0 Several shorter bands of of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hector.\u00a0 The circulation of Hurricane Hector was relatively small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 35 miles (55 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out about 95 miles (155 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Hector exhibited a structure that is sometimes called an annular hurricane.\u00a0 Annular hurricanes often achieve an equilibrium with their environment which can persist for days if there is not much wind shear.\u00a0 Hector will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is between 27\u00b0C and 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Hector will remain a strong hurricane and it could strengthen during the next 24 to 48 hours, if the inner eyewall dissipates completely.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Hector will move south of the subtropical high pressure system over the Central Pacific.\u00a0 The high will steer Hector toward the west for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Hector will remain south of Hawaii.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean, Hurricane John weakened west of Baja California and Tropical Storm Kristy exhibited little change on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane John was located at latitude 23.1\u00b0N and longitude 114.4\u00b0W which put it about 285 miles (460 km) west of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 John was moving toward the northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (155 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 983 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Kristy was located at latitude 15.3\u00b0N and longitude 130.0\u00b0W which put it about 1410 miles (2220 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Kristy was moving toward the northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Powerful Hurricane Hector passed south of Hawaii on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Hector was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0N and longitude 156.8\u00b0W which put it about 325 miles (525 km) south-southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hector was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[745,150,151,39,1118,1142,746,470,486,23,1117,1141,1119,1132,1133,1135,24,1134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357"}],"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=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}