Former Tropical Storm Humberto strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Humberto was located at latitude 29.4\u00b0N and longitude 77.6\u00b0W which put it about 785 miles (1260 km) west of Bermuda.\u00a0 Humberto was moving toward the northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Humberto strengthened steadily on Sunday and the circulation exhibited greater organization.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of circulation and an eye appeared to be developing.\u00a0 There was a broken ring of thunderstorms around the developing eye and the strongest winds were occurring in the eastern side of the ring.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Humberto.\u00a0 There were more rainbands in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Wind to tropical storm force extended out about 150 miles (240 km) on the eastern side of Humberto and out about 70 miles (110 km) on the western side.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Humberto will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next two to three days.\u00a0 Humberto will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 Am upper level trough over the eastern U.S. will produce southwesterly winds which will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 However, the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Hurricane Humberto will intensify during the next 24 to 48 hours and it could strengthen into a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Humberto moved around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 Humberto will move slowly toward the northeast on Monday.\u00a0 The upper level trough and the subtropical high will combine to steer Humberto toward the east during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Humberto could approach Bermuda by late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Humberto strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Humberto was located at latitude 29.4\u00b0N and longitude 77.6\u00b0W which put it about 785 miles (1260 km) west of Bermuda.\u00a0 Humberto was moving toward the northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 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":[3,2],"tags":[491,492,31,51,98,1676,1678,100,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400"}],"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=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}