{"id":3423,"date":"2023-01-04T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2023-01-04T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:37:17","slug":"hurricane-force-east-pacific-storm-off-us-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/hurricane-force-east-pacific-storm-off-us-west-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Force East Pacific Storm off US West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3429\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sat2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3429\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3429\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sat2-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sat plus wind\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sat2-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sat2.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA GOES Satillite image with wind streams via Ventusky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An intense storm low over the eastern North Pacific is currently moving towards the northeast at about 20 kts and is producing winds of 50-70 knots with significant wave heights up to 12.5-13.5 meters (41-45 feet) within 120-360 nm south and west of the center.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA forecasters have issued gale to storm warnings along the entire US West Coast where hurricane force wind gusts are possible along with heavy rain and snow over land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3425\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pacfc1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3425\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3425\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pacfc1.jpg\" alt=\"12Z Surface\" width=\"557\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pacfc1.jpg 557w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pacfc1-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA OPC 1200Z Surface Analysis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Other Hurricane Season\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each year there are, on average, about 6 hurricanes in the North Atlantic, 8 in the Eastern North Pacific and 17 Typhoons in the western North Pacific. Few people (outside of Mariners) realize that there is another season of hurricane winds that occurs over both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean and runs from September to May. These storms do not track through the tropics, but instead are associated with the extratropical cyclones of the mid-latitudes.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/03\/the-other-hurricane-season\/\">Read More Here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intense storm low over the eastern North Pacific is currently moving towards the northeast at about 20 kts and is producing winds of 50-70 knots with significant wave heights up to 12.5-13.5 meters (41-45 feet)  <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/hurricane-force-east-pacific-storm-off-us-west-coast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174,169,3],"tags":[28,19,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}