Tropical Storm Erick formed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Erick was located at latitude 11.9\u00b0N and longitude 126.8\u00b0W which put it about 1955 miles (3145 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Erick was moving toward the west at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms developed near the center of a low pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Erick.\u00a0 The circulation around Erick was still organizing.\u00a0 A small cluster of thunderstorms formed near the center of circulation and the strongest winds were occurring in that cluster.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were developing and the bands were beginning to revolve around the center of Tropical Storm Erick.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were starting to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Erick will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 48 to 72 hours.\u00a0 Erick will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 27.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Erick will strengthen and it could become a hurricane within 48 hours.\u00a0 Erick could intensify more rapidly if an eye and eyewall form.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Erick will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The subtropical high will steer Erick toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Erick could be southeast of Hawaii in four or five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Erick formed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Erick was located at latitude 11.9\u00b0N and longitude 126.8\u00b0W which put it about 1955 miles (3145 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Erick was moving toward the west at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[442,423,1557,23,1124,1556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994"}],"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=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8001,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}