Hurricane Douglas strengthened to a major hurricane on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Douglas was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 134.7\u00b0W which put it about 1470 miles (2365 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 140 m.p.h. (225 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 967 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Douglas strengthened rapidly into a major hurricane during the past 24 hours.\u00a0 A circular eye formed at the center of Douglas.\u00a0 A ring of thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Douglas.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating strong upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Douglas will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Douglas will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Douglas could strengthen on Thursday.\u00a0 Douglas will start to move over slightly cooler water on Friday.\u00a0 It is likely to weaken slowly once the core of the circulation moves over the cooler water.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Douglas will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Douglas toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Douglas could approach Hawaii on Sunday.\u00a0 Watches could be issued for Hawaii later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Douglas strengthened to a major hurricane on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Douglas was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 134.7\u00b0W which put it about 1470 miles (2365 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 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":[4,2],"tags":[430,2079,432,23,1124,2083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844"}],"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=9844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9845,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions\/9845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}