{"id":497,"date":"2016-01-14T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:55:23","slug":"north-pacific-storm-morning-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/north-pacific-storm-morning-update\/","title":{"rendered":"North Pacific Storm morning update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_498\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/capture8.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-498\" title=\"capture\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/capture8-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/capture8-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/capture8-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/capture8.png 1218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit NOAA OPC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The intense and dangerous North Pacific storm continues to pack winds to 90 knots and wave heights to 50 feet (15.2 meters) this morning.\u00a0 From NOAA OPC\u2019s post this morning :<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe 0600 UTC GOES-W enhanced infrared satellite image along with a portion of the 06Z OPC Pacific surface analysis shows a powerful 948-mb hurricane force low pressure system in the central Pacific. In addition, the 0849 UTC ASCAT wind retrievals from this morning showed an impressive wind field with values up to 90 knots (~104 mph) in the strong cold advection in the south quadrant of the low center. The 0542 UTC AltiKa altimeter pass from that same area was equally spectacular with values up to 50 feet!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a reminder, a system is classified as &#8220;hurricane force&#8221; when the winds are equal to or greater than 64 knots (~74 mph).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please visit the OPC&#8217;s Pacific page on the main website for additional analysis and forecast products:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov\/Pac_tab.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov\/Pac_tab.shtml<\/a>\u00a0 \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_499\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Capture24.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-499\" title=\"Capture2\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Capture24-1024x699.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Capture24-1024x699.png 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Capture24-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Capture24.png 1218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit NOAA OPC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intense and dangerous North Pacific storm continues to pack winds to 90 knots and wave heights to 50 feet (15.2 meters) this morning.\u00a0 From NOAA OPC\u2019s post this morning : \u201cThe 0600 UTC GOES-W enhanced infrared satellite image along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/north-pacific-storm-morning-update\/\">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":[3],"tags":[28,19,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}