Forecasters are keeping tabs on a disturbance far southeast of the Big Island, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center reported Monday.
Forecasters are keeping tabs on a disturbance far southeast of the Big Island, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center reported Monday.
Showers and thunderstorms associated with the broad area of low pressure about 1,200 miles southeast of the Big Island remain disorganized, the Honolulu-based forecasters said. However, environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development during the next couple of days. It has a 50 percent chance of forming into a tropical depression within 48 hours.
Elsewhere in the Central Pacific basin, an area spanning north of the equator from 140 west longitude to the international date line, no tropical cyclone formation is expected through Wednesday afternoon. Hawaii is located within this basin.
Also being monitored Monday was Tropical Depression 11-E, located about 2,100 miles east of the Big Island, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. As of Monday afternoon, the depression was circulating 30 mph winds and moving toward the northwest at 18 mph.
Forecasters expect the depression to weaken to a remnant low Monday night.
“The combination of colder ocean conditions, drier mid-level air, and increasing southeasterly vertical wind shear should result in the system’s rapid demise during the next 12 hours or so,” forecasters said.
Elsewhere in the Eastern Pacific basin, no tropical cyclone activity is forecast during the next five days.
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