{"id":24850,"date":"2026-08-01T03:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=24850"},"modified":"2026-08-01T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T03:03:06","slug":"tropical-storm-genevieve-churns-west-of-baja-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=24850","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Genevieve Churns West of Baja California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Genevieve continued to churn over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean west of Baja California on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Genevieve was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0N and longitude 131.4\u00b0W which put the center about 1370 miles (2200 km) west of southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Genevieve was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Genevieve continued to weaken gradually on Friday as it moved over cooler water in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean west of Baja California.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of Genevieve\u2019s circulation were not rising as high into the atmosphere.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were still revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Genevieve.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Genevieve generated less upper level divergence that pumped less mass away from the tropical Storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass in the upper levels was less than the convergence of mass in the lower levels of the atmosphere.\u00a0 So, the surface pressure increased gradually on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Tropical Storm Genevieve.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Genevieve will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Genevieve will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 24.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Genevieve will continue to weaken gradually on Saturday as it moves over cooler water.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Genevieve 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 Genevieve toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Genevieve will continue to move farther away from Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Genevieve continued to churn over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean west of Baja California on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Genevieve was located at latitude 22.6\u00b0N and longitude 131.4\u00b0W which put the center about 1370 miles (2200 km) west of southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Genevieve [&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":[429,39,431,2142,2141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850"}],"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=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24851,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions\/24851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}