Tropical Storm Kiko formed south of Baja California on Thursday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Kiko was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 112.2\u00b0W which put it about 495 miles (795 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Kiko was moving toward the west-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 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
A distinct center of circulation developed in a cluster of thunderstorms south of Baja California on Thursday and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Kiko.\u00a0 The circulation around Kiko was still organizing.\u00a0 The center of circulation was evident on satellite imagery.\u00a0 Band of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation were beginning to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 80 miles (130 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Kiko will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Kiko will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Kiko is likely to strengthen into a hurricane.\u00a0 Kiko could intensify more rapidly once an eye and eyewall form in the inner core of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Kiko will move south of a subtropical ridge over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Kiko toward the west-northwest during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Kiko will move farther away from Baja California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Kiko formed south of Baja California on Thursday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Kiko was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0N and longitude 112.2\u00b0W which put it about 495 miles (795 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Kiko was moving toward the west-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":[151,39,486,1674,24,1673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368"}],"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=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8369,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}