Tropical Storm Douglas strengthened quickly over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Douglas was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0N and longitude 124.2\u00b0W which put it about 2110 miles (3390 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-southwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Douglas exhibited much better organization on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the southern and eastern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around around the center of Douglas.\u00a0 The strongest bands were in the southern half of Tropical Storm Douglas.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 40 miles (65 km) from the center of Douglas.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Douglas will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Douglas will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Douglas is likely to intensify into a hurricane during the next 24 hours and it could strengthen into a major hurricane later this week.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Douglas will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high is likely to steer Douglas toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Douglas could approach Hawaii by late in the weekend.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Depression Seven-E weakened over cooler water east of Hawaii.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Depression Seven-E was located at latitude 19.3\u00b0N and longitude 134.1\u00b0W which put it about 1575 miles (2535 km) west of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward west at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed 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 1009 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Douglas strengthened quickly over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Douglas was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0N and longitude 124.2\u00b0W which put it about 2110 miles (3390 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-southwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 […]<\/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":[429,430,2079,431,432,23,1124,2077,2078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825"}],"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=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9826,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/9826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}