Tropical Storm Miriam formed southwest of Baja California on Sunday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Miriam was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 125.3\u00b0W which put it about 1210 miles (1950 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Miriam was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Miriam organized quickly on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms developed and the bands began to revolve around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Miriam started to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away in all directions.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Miriam will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Miriam will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through an area where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Miriam could intensify into a hurricane on Monday.\u00a0 Miriam could intensify rapidly once the inner core becomes fully organized and an eye develops at the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Miriam will move south of the subtropical ridge over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Miriam in a general westerly direction during the next two or three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Miriam will move farther away from Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Miriam formed southwest of Baja California on Sunday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Miriam was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 125.3\u00b0W which put it about 1210 miles (1950 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Miriam was moving toward the west at 13 […]<\/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":[163,39,1028,164,23,24,1194,1193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479"}],"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=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}