Tropical Storm Elida formed southwest of Mexico on Sunday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Elida was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 105.4\u00b0W which put it about 195 miles (310 km) south-southwest of Manzanillo,, Mexico.\u00a0 Elida was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around former Tropical Depression Nine-E exhibited much more organization on Sunday morning and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Elida.\u00a0 Microwave satellite imagery suggested than an eye could be forming at the center of Elida.\u00a0 A band of thunderstorms wrapped around the eastern side of the center of circulation and the band could represent the beginning of an eyewall.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Elida.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 50 miles (80 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Elida will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Elida will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical storm Elida will continue to intensify and it could strengthen into a hurricane within 24 hours.\u00a0 Elida could rapidly intensify if an eye and eyewall form and it could strengthen into a major hurricane within 48 to 72 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Elida will move south of a ridge that extends from northern Mexico over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Elida toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Elida will pass south of Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Elida formed southwest of Mexico on Sunday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Elida was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 105.4\u00b0W which put it about 195 miles (310 km) south-southwest of Manzanillo,, Mexico.\u00a0 Elida was moving toward the west-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[742,39,2127,743,1027,24,2126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10023,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions\/10023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}