{"id":21171,"date":"2024-09-22T21:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=21171"},"modified":"2024-09-22T21:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T21:18:55","slug":"depression-prompts-tropical-storm-watch-for-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=21171","title":{"rendered":"Depression Prompts Tropical Storm Watch for Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The formation of Tropical Depression Ten-E over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Watch for a portion of the coast of Mexico.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression Ten-E was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0N and longitude 98.7\u00b0W which put the center about 175 miles (280 km) south of Punta Maldonado, Mexico.\u00a0 The tropical depression was stationary.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A Tropical Storm Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Punta Maldonado to Salina Cruz, Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A low pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean strengthened on Sunday afternoon and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Ten-E.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of Tropical Depression Ten-E.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms began to revolve around the center of the tropical depression.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation began to generate upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical depression.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Depression Ten-E will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The tropical depression will be over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will be in a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Ten-E is likely to strengthen to a tropical storm during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Depression Ten-E will be in an area where the steering winds are weak during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The tropical depression is likely to move very slowly toward the north on Monday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Depression Ten-E will move a little closer to Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formation of Tropical Depression Ten-E over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Watch for a portion of the coast of Mexico.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression Ten-E was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0N and longitude 98.7\u00b0W which put the center about 175 miles [&hellip;]<\/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":[745,746,24,2907,2908,2969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21171"}],"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=21171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21172,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21171\/revisions\/21172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}