Tropical Storm Fausto developed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean south of Baja California on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Fausto was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0N and longitude 112.7\u00b0W which put the center about 750 miles (1205 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Fausto was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 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 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Depression Six-E strengthened on Sunday afternoon and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Fausto.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Fausto was strengthening gradually on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed near the center of Fausto’s circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were also occurring in bands in the western side of Tropical Storm Fausto.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern side of Fausto’s circulation still consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Fausto began to generate 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 northwestern part of Tropical Storm Fausto.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) in the northwestern quadrant of Fausto’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the other parts of Tropical Storm Fausto were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Fausto will move through and environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Fausto 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 southwest of Mexico.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Fausto will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Fausto is likely to strengthen to a hurricane on Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Fausto will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system that is over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Fausto toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Fausto will move farther away from Mexico.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Elida was weakening slowly as it churned west of Baja California.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Elida was located at latitude 23.2\u00b0N and longitude 125.9\u00b0W which put the center about 1015 miles (1635 km) west of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Elida was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h). 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). The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Fausto developed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean south of Baja California on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Fausto was located at latitude 12.4\u00b0N and longitude 112.7\u00b0W which put the center about 750 miles (1205 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Fausto […]<\/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":[418,422,39,2127,419,423,2139,24,2126,2138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733"}],"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=24733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24734,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733\/revisions\/24734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}