Hurricane Juliette rapidly intensified into a major hurricane southwest of Baja California on Monday. At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Juliette was located at latitude 17.8\u00b0N and longitude 114.0\u00b0W which put it abou 440 miles (710 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Juliette was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 140 m.p.h. (220 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 963 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Juliette intensified rapidly on Monday as it moved through an environment of warm water and littler vertical wind shear.\u00a0 An eye developed 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 Bands of strong thunderstorms increased in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of the circulation contained fewer thunderstorms.\u00a0 Storms around the core of Juliette generated strong upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 20 miles (30 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 125 miles (200 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Juliette will remain in an environment favorable for intensification for another day or so.\u00a0 Juliette will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are not too strong and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Juliette could strengthen further on Tuesday.\u00a0 Juliette will move over cooler water later this week and it will start to weaken.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Juliette will move southwest of a ridge over the southwestern U.S.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Juliette toward the northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Juliette will remain well west of Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Juliette rapidly intensified into a major hurricane southwest of Baja California on Monday. At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Juliette was located at latitude 17.8\u00b0N and longitude 114.0\u00b0W which put it abou 440 miles (710 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Juliette was moving toward the northwest […]<\/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":[456,39,457,1644,1636,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268"}],"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=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}