The potential impacts of Hurricane Olivia caused the issuance of Tropical Storm Watches for Hawaii on Sunday night.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Watches were issued for Oahu, Maui County including Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe, and Hawaii County.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Olivia was located at latitude 21.4\u00b0N and longitude 146.1\u00b0W which put it about 595 miles (960 km) east-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Olivia was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Olivia maintained its intensity and structure on Sunday.\u00a0 A circular eye persisted at the center of circulation and a ring of thunderstorms surrounded the eye.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Olivia.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 125 miles (200 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Olivia will move through a less favorable environment during the next several days.\u00a0 Olivia will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 26\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there will be enough energy in the upper ocean to support a hurricane.\u00a0 However, an upper level trough north of Hawaii will produce southwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of Hurricane Olivia.\u00a0 Those winds will cause more vertical wind shear and Hurricane Olivia could weaken to a tropical storm as it approaches Hawaii.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Olivia will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the Central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high is forecast to strengthen and it will steer Olivia on a west-southwesterly track.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Olivia could approach Hawaii late on Tuesday.\u00a0 Olivia will bring gusty winds and it could cause power outages.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain and the potential for flash floods are greater risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The potential impacts of Hurricane Olivia caused the issuance of Tropical Storm Watches for Hawaii on Sunday night.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Watches were issued for Oahu, Maui County including Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe, and Hawaii County.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Olivia was located at latitude 21.4\u00b0N and longitude 146.1\u00b0W […]<\/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":[200,1235,1118,201,23,1124,1141,1230,1178,1176,1175,1177,1179,1211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597"}],"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=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}