Tropical Storm Amanda continued to spin over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean far to the southwest of Baja California on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Amanda was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 134.1\u00b0W which put the center about 1725 miles (2775 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Amanda was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Amanda started to weaken on Friday as it spun far to the southwest of Baja California.\u00a0 Amanda moved into a region with drier, more stable air.\u00a0 The drier air and more vertical wind shear caused some of the thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Amanda to dissipate.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands west of the center of Amanda’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the other parts of Tropical Storm Amanda consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
Thunderstorms west of the center of Tropical Storm Amanda generated less upper level divergence.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels of the atmosphere was less than the convergence of mass in the lower levels.\u00a0 So, the net inflow of mass caused the surface pressure to increase slowly.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Amanda was very small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 35 miles (55 km) from the center of Amanda\u2019s circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Amanda will move through an environment unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Amanda will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western part of an upper level ridge that is west of Mexico.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce southeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Amanda\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear. In addition, Tropical Storm Amanda will continue to move through a region of drier air.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear and the drier air will cause Tropical Storm Amanda to continue to weaken during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Amanda will move around the southern part of a high pressure system that is over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Amanda slowly toward the west-southwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Amanda will remain far to the southwest of Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Amanda continued to spin over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean far to the southwest of Baja California on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Amanda was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 134.1\u00b0W which put the center about 1725 miles (2775 km) west-southwest of the southern tip […]<\/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":[389,2036,39,390,2035],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462"}],"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=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24463,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions\/24463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}