Former Tropical Storm Elida strengthened to a hurricane south of Baja California on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Elida was located at latitude 19.6\u00b0N and longitude 110.9\u00b0W which put it about 235 miles (380 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Elida was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Hurricane Elida exhibited better organization on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband was wrapping around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Elida.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms were in bands in the southern and eastern parts of the hurricane.\u00a0 Bands in the northwestern part of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Elida were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 20 miles (30 km) on the eastern side of the circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Elida will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Elida will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Elida will strengthen on Tuesday.\u00a0 Elida will move over cooler water during the middle of the week, which will cause it to weaken.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Elida will move around the southern part of an ridge of high pressure that extended from northern Mexico over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Elida toward the west-northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Elida will gradually move farther away from Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Elida strengthened to a hurricane south of Baja California on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Elida was located at latitude 19.6\u00b0N and longitude 110.9\u00b0W which put it about 235 miles (380 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Elida was moving toward the […]<\/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":[742,39,2127,743,2128,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032"}],"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=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10033,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions\/10033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}