Hurricane Dorian resumed strengthening east of the Bahamas on Thursday night after exhibiting little change of intensity during much of the day.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Dorian was located at latitude 23.3\u00b0N and longitude 68.4\u00b0W which put it about 580 miles (930 km) east of the Northwestern Bahamas.\u00a0 Dorian was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 977 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Hurricane Dorian exhibited little change for much of Thursday.\u00a0 Storms around the core of Dorian grew stronger on Thursday evening.\u00a0 An eye with a diameter of 10 miles (16 km) developed at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A nearly complete ring of thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Dorian.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The removal of mass allowed the surface pressure to start decreasing again.\u00a0 The circulation around Dorian was still relatively small.\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 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Dorian will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Dorian will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Dorian is likely to intensify to major hurricane status on Friday.\u00a0 There is the potential for Dorian to strengthen to Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale during the weekend.\u00a0 When Hurricane Dorian becomes a major hurricane, eyewall replacement cycles could cause fluctuations in its intensity.<\/p>\n
A ridge of high pressure will build north of Hurricane Dorian on Friday.\u00a0 The high will block Dorian from moving toward the north and it will turn the hurricane toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Dorian could approach the Northwestern Bahamas on Sunday and the east coast of Florida on Monday.\u00a0 Dorian is likely to be a small, but very dangerous hurricane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Dorian resumed strengthening east of the Bahamas on Thursday night after exhibiting little change of intensity during much of the day.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Dorian was located at latitude 23.3\u00b0N and longitude 68.4\u00b0W which put it about 580 miles (930 km) east of the Northwestern Bahamas.\u00a0 Dorian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[446,447,28,1607,51,98,1621,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203"}],"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=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}