Tropical Storm Elida developed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean South of Baja California on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Elida was located at latitude 14.9\u00b0N and longitude 111.8\u00b0E which put the center about 565 miles (910 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Elida was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean strengthened on Tuesday night and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Elida.<\/p>\n
Numerous thunderstorms formed near the center of Tropical Storm Elida early on Wednesday.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also developing in bands revolving around the center of Elida’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Elida 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 strongest winds were occurring in the northern side of Tropical Storm Elida.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles (95 km) in the northern half of Elida’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the southern half of Tropical Storm Elida were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Elida will move through an environment that will be very favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Elida will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge that is over 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 Elida will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Elida could intensify rapidly.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Elida will move around the southern side of a high pressure system that is over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Elida toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Elida will move farther away from the southern part of Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Elida developed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean South of Baja California on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Elida was located at latitude 14.9\u00b0N and longitude 111.8\u00b0E which put the center about 565 miles (910 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Elida […]<\/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":[418,39,2127,419,24,2126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698"}],"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=24698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24699,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions\/24699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}