Tropical Storm Adrian developed south of Guatemala on Tuesday.\u00a0 Adrian became the earliest tropical storm to form over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean during the satellite era.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Adrian was located at latitude 9.5\u00b0N and longitude 92.3\u00b0W which put it about 360 miles (575 km) southwest of San Salvador, El Salvador.\u00a0 Adrian was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
A well defined low level center of circulation developed within a large area of thunderstorms over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on Tuesday and the National Hurricane Center classified the system as Tropical Storm Adrian.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped about half way around the western side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms formed farther away from the center.\u00a0 There were more thunderstorms west of the center, but bands were forming in all quadrants of Tropical Storm Adrian.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring close to the center of circulation, which is the typical structure of a tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the core of Adrian were beginning to generate upper level divergence which was pumping away mass.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Adrian will be moving through an environment that will be favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Adrian will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature will be about 30.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Adrian is producing southeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are causing some vertical wind shear, but the shear should not be great enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Adrian is likely to intensify during the next several days and it could become a hurricane later this week.<\/p>\n
Adrian is moving around the southwestern part of a subtropical ridge, which is steering the tropical storm toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 A general west-northwesterly motion is expected to continue for several more days.\u00a0 When Adrian reaches the western end of the ridge later this week, the tropical storm will turn toward the north and it will move closer toward the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Adrian developed south of Guatemala on Tuesday.\u00a0 Adrian became the earliest tropical storm to form over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean during the satellite era.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Adrian was located at latitude 9.5\u00b0N and longitude 92.3\u00b0W which put it about 360 miles (575 km) […]<\/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":[389,573,579,390,450,449,24,571,680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963"}],"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=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}