{"id":25645,"date":"2026-10-26T03:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25645"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:35:31","slug":"vance-weakens-to-a-tropical-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=25645","title":{"rendered":"Vance Weakens to a Tropical Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Hurricane Vance weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday as it moved over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean south of Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Vance was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 104.7\u00b0W which put the center about 275 miles (445 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Vance was moving toward the northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 995 mb.<\/p>\n

Former Hurricane Vance weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday.\u00a0 An upper level trough over Baja California was producing southwesterly winds that were blowing toward the top of Vance’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The strong vertical wind shear caused Vance to weaken to a tropical storm.<\/p>\n

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The strong vertical wind shear also caused the distribution of thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Vance to become asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were still occurring in bands in the northeastern part of Vance’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the other parts of Tropical Storm Vance consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Vance generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the northeast of 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 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Storm Vance was also asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 150 miles (240 km) in the northern side of Vance’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles in the southern side of Tropical Storm Vance.<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Vance will move through an environment that will be unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Vance will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, the upper level trough over Baja California will continue to cause strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Vance is likely to continue to weaken on Monday because of the strong vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Vance will move around the western end of a high pressure system that is over Mexico.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Vance slowly toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Vance will remain southwest of Mexico for the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Hurricane Vance weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday as it moved over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean south of Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Vance was located at latitude 15.0\u00b0N and longitude 104.7\u00b0W which put the center about 275 miles (445 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[288,289,1027,24,4278,4271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25645"}],"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=25645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25647,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25645\/revisions\/25647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}