Hurricane Douglas prompted the issuance of Hurricane Watches for some of the Hawaiian Islands on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Douglas was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0N and longitude 143.5\u00b0W which put it about 785 miles (1260 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (30 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 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 Watches were issued for Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Kahoolawe.<\/span><\/p>\n Hurricane Douglas continued on a track toward the Hawaiian Islands on Friday, which prompted the issuance of Hurricane Watches.\u00a0 Douglas was weakening slowly as it moved over slightly cooler water.\u00a0 In addition, Hurricane Douglas appeared to go through an eyewall replacement cycle which may have contributed to the weakening.\u00a0 Even though it had weakened, Douglas remained a powerful, well organized hurricane.\u00a0 There was a circular eye at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms 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 upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the hurricane.<\/p>\n Winds to hurricane force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 120 miles (195 km) from the center of Douglas.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Douglas was 20.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 9.9 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 30.5.\u00a0 Hurricane Douglas was capable of causing localized major damage.<\/p>\n Hurricane Douglas will move through an environment less favorable for major hurricanes during the next several days.\u00a0 Douglas will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 25\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, Hurricane Douglas will not be able to extract as much energy from the upper ocean.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The lack of wind shear will allow Hurricane Douglas to weaken gradually.<\/p>\n Hurricane Douglas will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the Eastern and Central North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Douglas toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Douglas will approach Hawaii on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurricane Douglas prompted the issuance of Hurricane Watches for some of the Hawaiian Islands on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Douglas was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0N and longitude 143.5\u00b0W which put it about 785 miles (1260 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-northwest at […]<\/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":[430,2079,432,23,1124,2083,1178,1176,1175,1177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859"}],"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=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9860,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions\/9860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}