{"id":8464,"date":"2019-09-22T03:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T03:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2019-09-22T03:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T03:49:26","slug":"tropical-storm-lorena-brings-rain-to-northwestern-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=8464","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Lorena Brings Rain to Northwestern Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Lorena brought rain to parts of northwestern Mexico on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 111.2\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (55 km\/h) southwest of Guaymas, Mexico.\u00a0 Lorena was moving toward the north at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gust to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Huatabampito to Puerto Libertad, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hurricane Lorena weakened on Saturday as it moved northward across the Gulf of California.\u00a0 The inner core of Lorena was disrupted on Saturday morning when the eye moved near the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 An upper level trough over the southwestern U.S. produced strong southwesterly winds which caused moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear inhibited the development of new thunderstorms while Tropical Storm Lorena moved over the warm water in the Gulf of California.\u00a0 By Saturday night the strongest thunderstorms were occurring just to the northeast of the center circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Lorena will make landfall on the west coast of Mexico near Guaymas on Saturday night.\u00a0 Lorena will move northward over Sonora toward Hermosillo after it make landfall.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Lorena is a small storm and it will weaken rapidly when it moves inland.\u00a0 Lorena will drop locally heavy rain over parts of Sonora.\u00a0 The locally heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Lorena brought rain to parts of northwestern Mexico on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 111.2\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (55 km\/h) southwest of Guaymas, Mexico.\u00a0 Lorena was moving toward the north at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed [&hellip;]<\/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":[163,164,1272,1683,24,1274,1697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464"}],"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=8464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8465,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions\/8465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}