Jimena is now a post-tropical remnant low located about 250 miles north-northwest of Honolulu, forecasters with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center said Thursday afternoon. ADVERTISING Jimena is now a post-tropical remnant low located about 250 miles north-northwest of Honolulu, forecasters
Jimena is now a post-tropical remnant low located about 250 miles north-northwest of Honolulu, forecasters with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center said Thursday afternoon.
Jimena, which peaked as a Category 4 storm packing 145 mph, weakened to a tropical depression Wednesday and to a remnant low early Thursday, forecasters said. The system, which featured disorganized showers and thunderstorms, was moving toward the west-southwest at 10 mph and forecasters say that it is unlikely that the disturbance will reorganize in the coming days as it encounters strong upper-level winds.
Warm and humid conditions are expected to continue as light and variable winds will prevail through early next week, National Weather Service forecasters said. Increasing showers are expected through Saturday as moisture associated with Jimena and an upper-level trough approaching from the northwest combine to bring another round of unsettled weather. The heaviest rain will focus across the western half of the island chain.
Elsewhere in the Central Pacific, which is where Hawaii is located, no tropical cyclones are expected to form through Saturday afternoon, forecasters said.
In the Eastern Pacific, Linda weakened to a post-tropical remnant low Thursday. The former hurricane was located a couple of hundred miles southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico.
Forecasters are also monitoring a broad area of low pressure located a few hundred miles south-southwest of the coast of Guatemala that is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Conditions are forecast to be marginally conducive for development. Forecasters gave it just a 30 percent chance of forming into a tropical cyclone within five days.
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