Tropical Cyclone Solo (23P) intensified slowly over the Coral Sea on Friday.\u00a0 At 6:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Solo was located at latitude 17.1\u00b0S and longitude 161.1\u00b0E which put it about 470 miles northwest of Noumea, New Caledonia and about 470 miles west of Port Vila, Vanuatu.\u00a0 Solo was moving toward the south-southeast at 13 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 80 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 983 mb.<\/p>\n
Solo is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures, but an upper level high to the east of it is producing northerly winds over the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear is causing more of the stronger thunderstorms to be located south of the center and it is inhibiting the intensification of Solo.\u00a0 As a result it is intensifying slowly and that trend is expected to continue for the next day or two.\u00a0 Eventually, when Solo moves to a higher latitude, stronger upper level winds will create more vertical wind shear and weaken it.<\/p>\n
Solo is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 As it gets farther south, Solo is expected to move more toward the southeast.\u00a0 On its projected track, Solo would approach New Caledonia in about 36 hours.\u00a0 It could be near hurricane intensity at that time.\u00a0 Solo could bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to New Caledonia when it moves past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Solo (23P) intensified slowly over the Coral Sea on Friday.\u00a0 At 6:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Solo was located at latitude 17.1\u00b0S and longitude 161.1\u00b0E which put it about 470 miles northwest of Noumea, New Caledonia and about 470 miles west of Port Vila, Vanuatu.\u00a0 Solo was moving […]<\/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":[88,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}