Tropical Storm Genevieve spun up quickly south of Mexico on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Genevieve was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 99.2\u00b0W which put it about 410 miles (665 km) south-southeast of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.\u00a0 Genevieve was moving toward the west-northwest at 20 m.p.h. (32 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 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around former Tropical Depression Twelve-E organized quickly on Sunday afternoon and the National Hurricane Center upgraded the system to Tropical Storm Genevieve.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Genevieve.\u00a0 Storms near the center were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Genevieve will move through an environment very favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Genevieve will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds will be weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Genevieve will intensify rapidly.\u00a0 Genevieve will strengthen into a hurricane within 24 hours and it could intensify into a major hurricane during the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Genevieve will move around the southern side of a ridge of high pressure over the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Genevieve toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Genevieve could pass south of the Baja California during the middle of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Genevieve spun up quickly south of Mexico on Sunday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Genevieve was located at latitude 12.2\u00b0N and longitude 99.2\u00b0W which put it about 410 miles (665 km) south-southeast of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.\u00a0 Genevieve was moving toward the west-northwest at 20 m.p.h. (32 km\/h).\u00a0 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":[150,39,470,2142,24,2141,2143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071"}],"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=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}