A core circulation organized quickly on Tuesday inside Tropical Depression 22E and it intensified into Tropical Storm Sandra.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Sandra was located at latitude 11.9\u00b0N and longitude 107.2\u00b0W which put it about 780 miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Sandra was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 997 mb.<\/p>\n
Eastern upper level winds which were blowing over the top of Tropical Depression 22E diminished on Tuesday and the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Sandra.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped around the center of circulation\u00a0 and an inner core developed near the interior end of the band.\u00a0 As the band wrapped around the center of circulation a ring of thunderstorms began to take on the structure of an eyewall.\u00a0 Those thunderstorms also started to generate some upper level divergence.\u00a0 The circulation of Sandra is still organizing and other spiral bands are starting to form.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Sandra is in an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 Although there is still some vertical wind shear, it is much less than it was on Monday.\u00a0 A combination of very warm water and little vertical wind shear could allow Sandra to intensify very quickly.\u00a0 It is likely to become a hurricane with 12 to 18 hours and it could become a major hurricane within 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 In a couple of days Sandra will start to encounter strong upper level winds from the southwest.\u00a0 The increased vertical wind shear at that time will cause it to weaken.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Sandra is starting to move around the western end of a subtropical ridge that has been steering toward the north.\u00a0 Sandra should gradually turn toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 It is likely to move mainly toward the north until Thursday when southwesterly winds will turn it toward the northeast.\u00a0 Sandra could be approaching the southern tip of Baja California by Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A core circulation organized quickly on Tuesday inside Tropical Depression 22E and it intensified into Tropical Storm Sandra.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Sandra was located at latitude 11.9\u00b0N and longitude 107.2\u00b0W which put it about 780 miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Sandra was moving […]<\/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":[288,39,289,24,112,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978"}],"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=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}