Tropical Depression 03E formed out of the cluster of thunderstorms formerly known as Invest 92E and the government of Mexico issued a Tropical Storm Warning for a portion of the south coast.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression 03E was located at latitude 14.5\u00b0N and longitude 95.0\u00b0W which put it about 105 miles (170 km) southeast of Puerto Angel, Mexico.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the northwest at 5 m.p.h. (7 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1007 mb.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Boca De Pijijiapan to Punta Maldonado, Mexico.<\/p>\n
A distinct center of circulation developed within an area of thunderstorms that had been lingering over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean south of Mexico.\u00a0 More thunderstorms formed closer to the center of circulation and the National\u00a0 Hurricane Center determined that there was sufficient organization to designate the system as Tropical Depression 03E.\u00a0 The stronger thunderstorms were occurring in a partial band close to the center of circulation.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms were forming in bands in other parts of the circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center have not yet begun to generate significant upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 03E will be moving through an environment that is marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 The depression will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It is moving under the western end of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge is generating southeasterly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are generating moderate vertical wind shear which is restricting upper level divergence to the east of the circulation.\u00a0 The shear is inhibiting intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Depression 03E will probably be able to extract enough energy to intensify into a tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression 03E is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it toward the northwest.\u00a0 A generally northwesterly motion is forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Depression 03E could approach the southern coast of Mexico in 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 It could be a tropical storm by that time.\u00a0 Tropical Depression 03E is likely to bring gusty winds, locally heavy rain and the potential for flash floods to parts of southern Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression 03E formed out of the cluster of thunderstorms formerly known as Invest 92E and the government of Mexico issued a Tropical Storm Warning for a portion of the south coast.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression 03E was located at latitude 14.5\u00b0N and longitude 95.0\u00b0W which put it […]<\/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":[409,410,24,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049"}],"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=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}