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A strengthening upper-level low located north of Walaka was causing the hurricane to begin a more northward track. [1] [12] [13] Walaka as a minimal Category 1 hurricane early on October 5. Walaka maintained its peak intensity for six hours before beginning to decay as a result of the eyewall replacement cycle.
Walaka peaked as a Category 5 hurricane at 00:00 UTC on October 2 with winds of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h) and a pressure of 921 mbar (27.20 inHg). This intensity made Walaka the fourth major hurricane in the Central Pacific and second Category 5 hurricane of the season. [29] After peaking, Walaka began to undergo an eyewall replacement cycle.
Hurricane Walaka was the nineteenth named storm and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season. As a tropical cyclone, it originated from an area of low pressure that formed around 1,600 mi (2,600 km) south-southeast of Hawaii on September 24, and became a tropical storm on September 29. The system tracked westward and ...
Hurricanes Walaka and Sergio, Tropical Depression Rosa, Tropical Storm Leslie and Typhoon Kong-rey on October 2, 2018 Taken by various of satellites throughout 2018, these are the 31 tropical cyclones that reached at least Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale during that year, from Berguitta in January to Cilida in December (though Hola and Sergio are out of order).
The 2018 Pacific hurricane season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The season officially started on May 15 in the eastern Pacific—east of 140°W—and began on June 1 in the central Pacific—the region between the International Date Line and 140°W, and ended on November 30.
The analog year 2006 was the first above-average season since 1994, producing 19 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and six major hurricanes. Hurricane John, which struck Baja California on Sept. 1 as a ...
Hurricane Gilma, a Category 3 storm that has become a major hurricane in the East Pacific, is expected to weaken by the time the weekend rolls around. ... @NOAA's #GOESWest 🛰️ is tracking a ...
The track is likely to be heavily influenced by the position of a dome of high pressure along the southern Atlantic coast of the United States and the speed of an approaching non-tropical storm ...