Tropical Storm Otto moved steadily along the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica and crossed into the eastern North Pacific Ocean on Thursday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Otto was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 85.6\u00b0W which put it about 20 miles (30 km) north of Liberia, Costa Rica.\u00a0 Otto was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (140 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Tropical Storm Otto remained intact as it crossed from the southwestern Caribbean Sea to the eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 Radar images from Nicaragua and infrared satellite images both showed that the eye continued to exist.\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms still surrounds the eye and those storms are generating upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Otto will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C on Friday, and it will move over warmer water during the weekend.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Otto is likely to strengthen back into a hurricane once the entire circulation moves over the eastern North Pacific Ocean and a period of rapid intensification is possible.<\/p>\n
A ridge north of Otto is steering the tropical storm toward the west and that general motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Otto is expected to move steadily away from the west coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Otto moved steadily along the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica and crossed into the eastern North Pacific Ocean on Thursday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Otto was located at latitude 10.9\u00b0N and longitude 85.6\u00b0W which put it about 20 miles (30 km) north of Liberia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[576,577,573,579,449,24,571,578],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438"}],"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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}