Tropical Storm Lidia has weakened but it is producing rain over Baja California.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Lidia was located at latitude 28.3\u00b0N and longitude 114.6\u00b0W which put it about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Punta Eugenia, Mexico.\u00a0 Lidia was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 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 999 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Punta Abreojos to San Jose de Las Palomas, from Mulege to Isla San Luis and from Guaymas to Puerto Libertad, Mexico.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Lidia weakened during the past 24 hours as it slowly moved northwest over Baja California.\u00a0 There are some indications that the upper portion of the circulation may have decoupled from the lower half of Tropical Storm Lidia.\u00a0 The upper portion of the circulation appears to be over the Gulf of California.\u00a0 There are stronger thunderstorms over the Gulf of California because the Sea Surface Temperature is near 32\u00b0C in that body of water.\u00a0 Those thunderstorms are producing heavy rain over parts of the eastern side of Baja California and the western part of Mexico adjacent to the Gulf of California.\u00a0 The lower level center appears to be located northeast of Punta Eugenia over the Pacific Ocean just west of Baja California.\u00a0 There are showers and thunderstorms near the low level center and they are dropping heavy rain in that area.\u00a0 The potential for flash floods still exists in the areas where heavy rain is falling.<\/p>\n
The low level center of Tropical Storm Lidia is forecast to continue to move toward the northwest.\u00a0 Lidia will continue to weaken because the low level center is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 23\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will take several more days for the low level center to spin down and it could still produce locally heavy rain over the northern part of Baja California during that time.\u00a0 The upper level portion of the circulation will likely be absorbed by the larger scale environmental flow in those levels.\u00a0 Some clouds and moisture in the upper levels could flow over the southwestern U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Lidia has weakened but it is producing rain over Baja California.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Lidia was located at latitude 28.3\u00b0N and longitude 114.6\u00b0W which put it about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Punta Eugenia, Mexico.\u00a0 Lidia was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[159,109,39,108,158,24,189,798],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690"}],"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=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}