Tropical Storm Octave formed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Thursday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Octave was located at latitude 9.8\u00b0N and longitude 127.2\u00b0W which put it about 1455 miles (2345 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Octave was moving toward the west at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms formed near the center of a small low pressure system between Mexico and Hawaii and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Octave.\u00a0 The circulation around Octave exhibited more organization and tropical characteristics on Thursday evening.\u00a0 There was a distinct low level center of circulation with thunderstorms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center.\u00a0 Storms near the center generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Octave was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out 35 miles (55 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Octave will move through an environment mostly favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Octave will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will be in a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 However, there appears to be drier air north of Tropical Storm Octave.\u00a0 If the circulation pulls drier air into the core of Octave, then thunderstorms around the center would weaken which would make intensification unlikely.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Octave could strengthen a little during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Octave will be in a region where the winds at the steering level are weak.\u00a0 Octave is forecast to move little during the next few days.\u00a0 Because Tropical Storm Octave will not move much, it will remain well away from any land area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Octave formed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Thursday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Octave was located at latitude 9.8\u00b0N and longitude 127.2\u00b0W which put it about 1455 miles (2345 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Octave was moving toward the west […]<\/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":[236,39,237,23,24,1752,1751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649"}],"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=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8650,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}