Powerful Hurricane Lorenzo churned southwest of the Azores on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Lorenzo was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 43.6\u00b0W which put it about 1575 miles (2535 km) southwest of the Azores.\u00a0 Lorenzo was moving toward the north-northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 948 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lorenzo weakened slowly on Friday, but it remained a large and powerful hurricane.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 45 miles (75 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 250 miles (400 km) from the center.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Lorenzo was 23.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 20.7 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 44.3.\u00a0 Hurricane Lorenzo was capable of causing major damage.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lorenzo weakened on Friday because it moved into a less favorable environment.\u00a0 Lorenzo continued to move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, an upper level trough west of Lorenzo was producing southwesterly winds which were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 in addition, Hurricane Lorenzo appeared to be drawing drier air into the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 The effects of increased vertical wind shear and drier air caused Lorenzo to weaken.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lorenzo will continue to move through a less favorable environment and weaken.\u00a0 Since Lorenzo is a large hurricane, it will weaken more slowly than a smaller hurricane would.\u00a0 As a result, Lorenzo will likely remain a hurricane for several more days.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will steer Hurricane Lorenzo toward the northeast during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Lorenzo will likely approach the Azores on Tuesday.\u00a0 Lorenzo is likely to still be a hurricane at that time.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Depression Karen weakened to a trough southeast of Bermuda on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of former Tropical Depression Karen was located at latitude 29.3\u00b0N and longitude 58.5\u00b0W which put it about 425 miles (685 km) south-southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Karen was moving toward the northeast at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind sped was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1007 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Powerful Hurricane Lorenzo churned southwest of the Azores on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Lorenzo was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0N and longitude 43.6\u00b0W which put it about 1575 miles (2535 km) southwest of the Azores.\u00a0 Lorenzo was moving toward the north-northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 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":[269,528,268,527,31,1713,650,1703,1709,322,1714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514"}],"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=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}