The core of the circulation of Andres became more circular and symmetrical on Friday and an eye has been visible intermittently during the day.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center classified Andres as a hurricane in its 5:00 p.m. EDT advisory on Friday.\u00a0 At that time the center of Hurricane Andres was located at latitude 12.8\u00b0N and longitude 114.8\u00b0W which put it about 770 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico.\u00a0 Andres was moving toward the northwest at 7 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
As the circulation consolidated in the center of Andres strong thunderstorms pushed higher into the atmosphere around the eye.\u00a0 Those thunderstorms pumped mass away from the center and caused the pressure at the surface to decrease.\u00a0 Andres is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is between 28\u00b0C and 29\u00b0C which means there is enough energy in the upper ocean to support further intensification.\u00a0 It also remains in an area where the vertical wind shear is low.\u00a0 So, further intensification is likely during the next day or two.\u00a0 As Andres moves farther north, it will gradually move over cooler SSTs and when it gets near latitude 20\u00b0N it will begin to be affected by upper level southwesterly winds.\u00a0 Cooler SSTs and more wind shear will likely cause Andres to weaken during the early part of next week.<\/p>\n
Andres is near a weakness in the mid-level ridge that has been steering the hurricane.\u00a0 The weakness in the ridge caused Andres to turn toward the northwest and its forward speed to decrease.\u00a0 After an upper level trough moves east of the ridge in a day or two, the ridge will strengthen and extend westward.\u00a0 That will cause Andres to move more toward the west again.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Andres poses no threat to Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The core of the circulation of Andres became more circular and symmetrical on Friday and an eye has been visible intermittently during the day.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center classified Andres as a hurricane in its 5:00 p.m. EDT advisory on Friday.\u00a0 At that time the center of Hurricane Andres was located at latitude 12.8\u00b0N and […]<\/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":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}