The risk posed by Hurricane Lorenzo prompted the issuance of watches for the Azores.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Lorenzo was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 43.5\u00b0W which put it about 1195 miles (1920 km) west-southwest of the Azores.\u00a0 Lorenzo was moving toward the north-northeast at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 952 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Watches were issued for the western and central Azores including Flores, Corvo, Faial, Pico, Sao Jorge, Graciosa, Terceira.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Watches were issued for the eastern Azores including Sao Miguel and Santa Maria.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lorenzo weakened on Sunday when it moved into a less favorable environment.\u00a0 Lorenzo moved over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was a little cooler.\u00a0 In addition, an upper level trough west of Hurricane Lorenzo was producing southwesterly winds which were blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those upper level winds were causing more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The combination of cooler water and more shear was responsible for weakening Hurricane Lorenzo.<\/p>\n
Even though Hurricane Lorenzo weakened on Sunday it remained a large and powerful hurricane.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 90 miles (145 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 19.2.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) 32.6 was and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 51.8.\u00a0 Hurricane Lorenzo was capable of causing widespread serious damage.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lorenzo is likely to continue to weaken slowly during the next several days because of the less favorable environment consisting of cooler water and more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Since the circulation around Lorenzo is so large, the hurricane will weaken slowly.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will steer Hurricane Lorenzo toward the northeast during the next two or three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Lorenzo could reach the Azores by Tuesday night.\u00a0 Lorenzo could be a large hurricane capable of causing widespread serious damage when it reaches the Azores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The risk posed by Hurricane Lorenzo prompted the issuance of watches for the Azores.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Lorenzo was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 43.5\u00b0W which put it about 1195 miles (1920 km) west-southwest of the Azores.\u00a0 Lorenzo was moving toward the north-northeast at 10 m.p.h. (16 […]<\/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":[528,527,1723,650,1709,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537"}],"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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}