A low level circulation organized in a large area of thunderstorms south of Acapulco, Mexico on Sunday and the system was classified as Tropical Storm Dolores.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Dolores was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0N and longitude 102.1\u00b0W which put it about 145 miles (230 km) south-southwest of Zihuatanejo, Mexico and about 295 miles (475 km) southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Dolores was moving toward the northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 55 m.p.h. (90 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.\u00a0 The government of Mexico has issued a Tropical Storm Watch for the portion of the coast from Lazaro Cardenas to Cabo Corrientes.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Dolores is not particularly well organized.\u00a0 Most of the strong thunderstorms are occurring in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 There are few thunderstorms in the southwestern part of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Upper level winds are light over Dolores and the tropical storm is producing strong upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.\u00a0 Dolores is over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C and there is plenty of energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 Dolores is close enough to Mexico that it could be pulling in some drier air from land, which may be inhibiting intensification at this time.\u00a0 The environmental factors would support intensification and rapid intensification may be possible if Dolores moves farther away from the coast of Mexico.<\/p>\n
A strong mid-level ridge over Texas and Mexico is steering Dolores toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 That general steering pattern is expected to continue for the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Dolores is forecast to stay west of the coast of Mexico.\u00a0 However, the proximity of Dolores to the coast prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Watch for a portion of the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A low level circulation organized in a large area of thunderstorms south of Acapulco, Mexico on Sunday and the system was classified as Tropical Storm Dolores.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Dolores was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0N and longitude 102.1\u00b0W which put it about 145 miles (230 km) south-southwest […]<\/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":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"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=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}