Tropical Storm Dalila intensified over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico on Saturday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Dalila was located at latitude 16.5\u00b0N and longitude 104.1\u00b0W which put the center about 175 miles (285 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Dalila was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Tecpan de Galeana to Cabo Corrientes, Mexico.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Dalila intensified over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico on Saturday morning.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of Dalila’s circulation.\u00a0\u00a0 More thunderstorms also developed in bands revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Dalila.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Dalila generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Storm Dalila was large.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 230 miles (370 km) from the center of Dalila’s circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Dalila will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Dalila will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle part of an upper level ridge over southern Mexico and the adjacent part of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm is likely to intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Dalila will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over Mexico.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer the tropical disturbance toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Dalila will start to move a little farther away from the coast of southwestern Mexico.<\/p>\n Thunderstorms in bands in the northern periphery of Tropical Storm Dalila will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to coastal portions of southwestern Mexico.\u00a0 The heaviest rain is likely fall in parts of Guerrero, Michoacan, and Colima.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Dalila intensified over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico on Saturday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Dalila was located at latitude 16.5\u00b0N and longitude 104.1\u00b0W which put the center about 175 miles (285 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Dalila was moving toward the northwest […]<\/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":[415,1039,569,1551,416,1720,3919,24,1721,2725,1550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22422"}],"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=22422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22423,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22422\/revisions\/22423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}