Tropical Storm Olivia moved closer to Hawaii on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Olivia was located at latitude 21.6\u00b0N and longitude 152.3\u00b0W which put it about 275 miles (440 km) east of Kahului, Hawaii.\u00a0 Olivia was moving toward the west at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for Oahu, Hawaii County, Maui County including Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe, and for Kauai County including Kauai and Niihau.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Olivia was weakening as it neared Hawaii.\u00a0 An upper level trough north of Hawaii was producing strong westerly winds which were blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds caused significant vertical wind shear and they blew the tops off thunderstorms near the center of circulations.\u00a0 Bands near the center and in the western half of Tropical Storm Olivia consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 There were still a few taller thunderstorms in bands on the far eastern side of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Since Tropical Storm Olivia consisted mostly of a circulation in the lower levels of the atmosphere, it was being steered by the winds in the lower levels.\u00a0 Olivia was moving south of the subtropical high over the central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 That high steered Tropical Storm Olivia quickly to the west on Tuesday and it will continue to do so.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Olivia will reach Hawaii on Wednesday.\u00a0 Olivia will bring some gusty winds and it could drop locally heavy rain, especially where the wind rises over hills and mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Olivia moved closer to Hawaii on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Olivia was located at latitude 21.6\u00b0N and longitude 152.3\u00b0W which put it about 275 miles (440 km) east of Kahului, Hawaii.\u00a0 Olivia was moving toward the west at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[200,1118,201,23,1178,1185,1176,1175,1177,1186,1179,1211,1210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620"}],"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=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}