Tropical Storm Tara developed south of Manzanillo, Mexico on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Tara was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0N and longitude 104.4\u00b0W which put it about 95 miles (155 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Tara was moving toward the west-northwest at 2 m.p.h. (3 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 1001 mb.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Punta San Telmo to Cabo Corrientes, Mexico.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Tara is still organizing.\u00a0 More thunderstorms are developing near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms are beginning to form around the center.\u00a0 Storms near the center are starting to generate upper level divergence which is pumping mass away to the east of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The circulation around\u00a0 Tropical Storm Tara is small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extend out about 35 miles (55 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Tara will be in an environment somewhat favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Tara will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough near Baja California will produce southwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 The wind shear will not stop intensification, but they will slow it.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Tara will remain close to Mexico and there is a chance that drier air from land could enter the northern part of the circulation.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Tara is forecast to strengthen gradually.\u00a0 However, because the circulation around Tropical Storm Tara is small, it could intensify or weaken very quickly if the environmental conditions change.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Tara will be in an area where the steering currents are weak for another day or two.\u00a0 Tara is forecast to move slowly toward the west-northwest during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Tara will remain west of Mexico.\u00a0 However, several forecast models predict that Tara will move more northward and make landfall west of Manzanillo.\u00a0 The government of Mexico issued a Tropical Storm Watch for that portion of the coast in case Tara brings tropical storm force winds to the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Tara developed south of Manzanillo, Mexico on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Tara was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0N and longitude 104.4\u00b0W which put it about 95 miles (155 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Tara was moving toward the west-northwest at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[288,39,1028,289,1027,24,1326,1325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880"}],"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=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}