The approach of Hurricane Douglas prompted the issuance of a Hurricane Warning for Oahu on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Douglas was located at latitude 19.5\u00b0N and 150.1\u00b0W which put it about 325 miles (525 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 90 m.p.h. (150 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning was in effect for Oahu.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Hurricane Watches were in effect for Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Kahoolawe. \u00a0Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Kahoolawe. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Tropical Storm Watches were in effect for Kauai and Niihau.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Hurricane Douglas weakened gradually on Saturday as it moved over cooler water.\u00a0 Douglas was moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was near 25\u00b0C.\u00a0 As a result of the cooler water, thunderstorms did not grow as high in the atmosphere.\u00a0 There was still an eye at the center of circulation, but breaks began to appear in the ring of storms around the eye.\u00a0 Most of the stronger thunderstorms were in the northern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the southern half of the circulation consisted mainly of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 30 miles (50 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 110 miles (175 km) from the center.<\/p>\n Hurricane Douglas will move around the southern side of a subtropical high pressure system over the North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Douglas toward the west-northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Douglas will pass north of the Big Island of Hawaii on Sunday morning.\u00a0 The core of Douglas could pass near Oahu on Sunday night.<\/p>\n Hurricane Douglas will bring gusty winds to the Hawaiian Islands.\u00a0 The strongest winds could occur on Oahu.\u00a0 Winds speeds will be greater at higher elevations.\u00a0 Douglas could drop heavy rain on the sides of the islands where the wind blows up the slopes.\u00a0 Flash flooding will be possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The approach of Hurricane Douglas prompted the issuance of a Hurricane Warning for Oahu on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Douglas was located at latitude 19.5\u00b0N and 150.1\u00b0W which put it about 325 miles (525 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Douglas was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 […]<\/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":[430,2079,432,23,1124,1141,2083,1178,1185,1176,1175,1177,1186,1179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874"}],"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=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}