Tropical Storm Akoni developed southeast of Hawaii on Thursday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Akoni was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 144.8\u00b0W which put it about 855 miles (1380 km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Akoni was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms developed near an area of low pressure southeast of Hawaii on Thursday and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center designated it as Tropical Storm Akoni when satellites indicated there were winds to tropical storm force.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Akoni was still organizing.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming.\u00a0 The strongest rainbands were in the southern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the northern half of the circulation were not as strong.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 70 miles (110 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Akoni will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Akoni will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move southeast of an upper level trough northeast of Hawaii.\u00a0 The trough will produce southwesterly winds which will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Akoni is forecast to strengthen gradually during the next several days.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Akoni will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Akoni toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Akoni will be south of Hawaii on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Hurricane Juliette was weakening slowly southwest of Baja California.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Juliette was located at latitude 21.3\u00b0N and 120.8\u00b0W which put it about 870 miles (1380 km) west-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 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 980 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Akoni developed southeast of Hawaii on Thursday.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Akoni was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 144.8\u00b0W which put it about 855 miles (1380 km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Akoni was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/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":[456,150,1661,39,457,470,23,1124,1644,1636,24,1660],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312"}],"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=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}