2018 Hurricane Season

[Carey]

Many have noted that most prediction models for Olivia is that the storm will weaken as it moves west... the TPAC WV loop is an excellent way of seeing, with your own eyes, the wind shear that this storm is up against (that lobe of air depending from the NW, with the dry band of air, in brown tones, between Olivia & the wind shear. Add the SST & you will get some of the information that are used in modeling. It should bo be noted here, wind shear tend to break apart storms & every deg over 25 gives the storm strength, so as this storm is traveling west it was gone from 25/26 waters & is heading into 27/28 degree waters...
The combination of those 2 factors, storm killing wind shear & storm rejuvenating warmer waters makes for fun forecasting...
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/tpac/h5-loop-wv.html