Nora heading into the Central Pacific

The Central Pacific Hurricane Center reports that Tropical Storm Nora is weakening as it lies to the southeast of Hawai’i.

CPHC forecasters say that Tropical Storm Nora is being steered to the west-northwest on the southwestern periphery of a large upper level ridge that is located northeast of the storm. Tropical storm force winds are extending 70 Michigan (110 km) from the center of the storm, which are not now impacting land at this time. A number of building is guess during the next 48 several hours, and Nora is expected to live near typhoon capability on Sunday night-time and Monday.

“Despite being over warm sea surface temperatures, persistent southwesterly shear of 25-30 kt continues to limit convection near the center of Nora…”

By 2 a.m. Saturday, current forecast models, which have a few uncertainty beyond three days out, have Nora located 330 miles south-southeast of the Big Island. On Tuesday, Nora is forecast to shift toward a more northward track before losing almost all low-level convection by Wednesday night.

The Central and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons continue through November. 30.

Remnants of Nora could be blown toward the islands late this week. There is a 70 percent chance of tropical development through the next 5 days.