Tropical Storm Ivo formed south of Baja California on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Ivo was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 109.5\u00b0W which put it about 490 miles (790 km) south of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Ivo was moving toward the west-northwest at 20 m.p.h. (32 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
A distinct low level center of circulation developed in a low pressure system south of Baja California on Wednesday and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Ivo.\u00a0 A band of thunderstorms wrapped around the western and southern parts of the center of circulation and satellite sensors indicated that winds to tropical storm force were occurring in the band.\u00a0 Other bands of thunderstorms developed in the western half of Tropical Storm Ivo.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of Ivo began to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ivo will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Ivo will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move south of an upper level ridge that stretches from west of California to northern Mexico.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, which could slow the rate at which Tropical Storm Ivo intensifies. However, the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification and Ivo could strengthen into a hurricane within 36 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Ivo will start to move over cooler water when it moves west of Baja California and that will cause it to weaken during the weekend.<\/p>\n
The ridge will steer Tropical Storm Ivo toward the northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Ivo will move west of Baja California.\u00a0 The primary impact of Ivo will be to generate waves which will reach the west coast of Baja California and southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Ivo formed south of Baja California on Wednesday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Ivo was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0N and longitude 109.5\u00b0W which put it about 490 miles (790 km) south of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Ivo was moving toward the west-northwest at 20 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":[745,39,108,746,1601,24,1600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129"}],"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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}