Tropical Storm Orlene developed rapidly southwest of Baja California on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Orlene was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 118.3\u00b0W which put it about 700 miles (1125 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Orlene was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.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 1001 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Orlene organized quickly on Sunday.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped around the center of circulation and an eye appears to be forming.\u00a0 Additional spiral bands are rotating around the core of Orlene.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the core of Tropical Storm Orlene are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass in all directions.\u00a0 The circulation of Orlene is symmetrical and well formed.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Orlene is moving through a very favorable environment.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Orlene will continue to intensify on Monday and it could intensify rapidly for another 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Orlene is moving northwest toward a weakness in the subtropical high and that general motion is expected to continue for another day or two.\u00a0 Eventually, the subtropical ridge is expected to strengthen and turn Tropical Storm Orlene toward the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Orlene developed rapidly southwest of Baja California on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Orlene was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0N and longitude 118.3\u00b0W which put it about 700 miles (1125 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Orlene was moving toward the northwest at 9 […]<\/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":[187,39,108,188,23,24,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992"}],"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=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}