At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Simon was located at latitude 18.8\u00b0N and longitude 110.6\u00b0W which put it about 285 miles south of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Simon was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. and the minimum surface pressure was estimated to be 993 mb.<\/p>\n
Simon appears to be developing a tight inner core and there are indications on visible satellite imagery that an eye might be forming.\u00a0 Upper level winds have lessened and Simon is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures.\u00a0 So, further intensification is likely and Simon will probably become a hurricane during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Simon is being steered to the west-northwest by a mid-level ridge over northern Mexico.\u00a0 It will likely turn more toward the north as it reaches the western extent of that ridge.\u00a0 Guidance from the numerical models suggests two possibilities once Simon moves west of Baja California.\u00a0 Some models are suggesting that it will turn northeastward and make landfall near the central portion of the Baja peninsula.\u00a0 Another group of models is suggesting that Simon will weaken and stall west of Baja California.\u00a0 It is too early to be certain which scenario is more likely.<\/p>\n
Simon is the 18th named tropical cyclone to form over the Eastern North Pacific during 2014.\u00a0 This equals the number of named tropical storms that formed over that region in 2013.<\/p>\n
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At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Simon was located at latitude 18.8\u00b0N and longitude 110.6\u00b0W which put it about 285 miles south of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Simon was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. and the minimum surface […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}