{"id":49589,"date":"2021-07-06T19:53:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49589"},"modified":"2021-07-06T20:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:32:34","slug":"8-pm-advisory-hurricane-elsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/07\/8-pm-advisory-hurricane-elsa\/","title":{"rendered":"8 pm advisory &#8212;- HURRICANE ELSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hurricane Hunters completed their mission into Elsa a little while ago, and observations from the aircraft indicate that the storm&#8217;s maximum winds are near 60 kt.&nbsp; Elsa is a sheared tropical cyclone, with the low-level center situated on the southwest edge of the main area of deep convection.&nbsp; Much of the western half of the circulation continues to lack significant shower or thunderstorm activity.&nbsp; Moderate westerly vertical shear, along with relatively dry mid-level air, should continue to affect the cyclone until landfall within the next day or so.&nbsp; However this environment should not be hostile enough to prevent some slight strengthening, and Elsa is predicted to become a hurricane overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/234054_5day_cone_with_line_and_wind.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/234054_5day_cone_with_line_and_wind.png 897w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/234054_5day_cone_with_line_and_wind-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/234054_5day_cone_with_line_and_wind-768x630.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsa is moving northward, or 350\/9 kt.&nbsp; A continued northward track is likely for the next 24 hours or so as the tropical cyclone moves between the western periphery of an Atlantic subtropical ridge and a broad low-pressure area over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.&nbsp; A turn toward the north-northeast along the northwestern side of the ridge is expected by late tomorrow, followed by an acceleration toward the northeast over the next couple of days ahead of a trough over the eastern United States and eastern Canada. &nbsp;The official track forecast is similar to the previous ones and near or slightly to the right of the model consensus tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hurricane Hunters completed their mission into Elsa a little while ago, and observations from the aircraft indicate that the storm&#8217;s maximum winds are near 60 kt.&nbsp; Elsa is a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32,459],"tags":[479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49595,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589\/revisions\/49595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}