Former Tropical Storm Alvin strengthened into a hurricane southwest of Baja California on Thursday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Alvin was located at latitude 17.4\u00b0N and longitude 115.4\u00b0W which put it about 520 miles (840 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Alvin was moving toward the northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 992 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Hurricane Alvin exhibited much greater organization on Wednesday.\u00a0 A small circular eye with a diameter of 10 miles (15 km) appeared at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 The circulation around Hurricane Alvin was very small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out only 10 miles (15 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 50 miles (80 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Alvin may be near its maximum intensity.\u00a0 Alvin was moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, it will move over cooler water on Friday.\u00a0 The small size of the circulation around Hurricane Alvin could allow it to weaken quickly once it moves over the cooler water.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Alvin will move near the western end of a subtropical ridge over Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Alvin toward the west-northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Alvin is forecast to weaken when it moves over colder water between Baja California and Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Alvin strengthened into a hurricane southwest of Baja California on Thursday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Alvin was located at latitude 17.4\u00b0N and longitude 115.4\u00b0W which put it about 520 miles (840 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Alvin was moving toward the […]<\/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":[389,1523,39,390,23,1528,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829"}],"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=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}