Tropical Storm Amanda Fizzles Away from Hawaii

Amanda's future track is shown in the open cone while its past path across the Pacific is also documented. Image: NHC — Amanda’s future track is shown in the open cone while its past path across the Pacific is also documented. Image: NHC

As it was predicted to do today, Tropical Storm Amanda has fizzled away into a Tropical Depression and is forecast to further degrade into a post-tropical remnant low later this evening. The decaying storm, located 1,415 miles east-southeast of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, and its associated moisture will remain well south of Hawaii, bringing no direct nor indirect impacts to the islands.

Now as a Tropical Depression, Amanda has maximum sustained winds of only 35 mph while having a minimum central pressure of 1007 mb or 29.74″. The system is moving west-southwest at 5 mph and this general motion is expected to continue through mid-week.

“Amanda is expected to become a post-tropical remnant low by tonight and dissipation in a few days,” said the National Hurricane Center in their latest update.

A new tropical depression has formed in the Eastern Pacific basin near the coast of Mexico. This new storm is forecast to become the second named storm of the season briefly before moving inland into Mexico as a weak system. There are no other threats brewing in the Central Pacific hurricane basin nor are any in the Eastern Pacific a threat to Hawaii.