Tropical Storm Paine intensified into a hurricane on Monday and the government of Mexico issued a Tropical Storm Warning for a portion of the west coast of Baja California.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Paine was located at latitude 23.4\u00b0N and longitude 116.5\u00b0W which put it about 315 miles (510 km) south-southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico.\u00a0 Paine was moving toward the northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (170 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 979 mb.<\/p>\n
There is a Tropical Storm Warning in effect for the portion of the coast from Punta Eugenia to Cabo San Quintin.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Hurricane Paine is showing signs of weakening.\u00a0 It had a well formed eye surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms a few hours ago.\u00a0 The eye is no longer apparent on infrared satellite imagery.\u00a0 There are still thunderstorms near the center of circulation.\u00a0 The circulation appears to be pulling cooler, drier and more stable air around the southwestern quadrant of Hurricane Paine.\u00a0 More thunderstorms are occurring in rainbands in the northwestern quadrant of the circulation.\u00a0 There are few thunderstorms in the rainbands in the eastern half of Hurricane Paine.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Paine will be moving into an environment that will be very unfavorable for a tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The center is currently moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 24\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move over water where the SST will be less than 22\u00b0C on Tuesday.\u00a0 Less energy in the upper ocean and cooler, more stable air will cause the circulation to weaken and it could weaken quickly.\u00a0 An upper level low southwest of California will generate some vertical wind shear which could separate the upper part of Hurricane Paine from the lower level circulation as Paine weakens.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Paine is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge over Mexico which is steering Paine toward the north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Paine will pass west of Punta Eugenia on Tuesday.\u00a0 The center or the upper part of the circulation could be near Cabo San Quintin on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 It is expected to weaken to a tropical depression or a remnant low before it reaches Cabo San Quintin.\u00a0 However, Paine could bring tropical storm force winds to a portion of the coast, which is why the Tropical Storm Warning was issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Paine intensified into a hurricane on Monday and the government of Mexico issued a Tropical Storm Warning for a portion of the west coast of Baja California.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Paine was located at latitude 23.4\u00b0N and longitude 116.5\u00b0W which put it about 315 miles (510 […]<\/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":[200,109,39,108,201,525,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054"}],"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=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}