A favorable environment caused Tropical Depression One-E to intensify quickly into Tropical Storm Andres on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Andres was located at latitude 11.8\u00b0N and longitude 113.3\u00b0W which put it about 800 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Andres was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 85 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
Andres exhibits a more organized circulation pattern on satellite imagery.\u00a0 The end of the primary rainband wrapped completely around the center of circulation and an eye appears on some satellite images.\u00a0 There are more thunderstorms in the rainbands and upper level outflow continues in all directions.\u00a0 Andres is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 Although there are strong upper level westerly winds north of 20\u00b0N and brisk upper level easterly winds near the Equator, Andres is moving through a region where the upper level winds are light.\u00a0 There is little vertical wind shear to inhibit the\u00a0 intensification of Andres during the next day or so.\u00a0 It will gradually move over water where the SSTs are slightly cooler, but there should still be plenty of energy in the upper ocean to support further intensification.\u00a0 Andres is likely to become a hurricane on Friday and it could continue to intensify rapidly for another 12 to 24 hours.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough passing well to the north of Andres is weakening the ridge that has been steering Andres toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 The effect of the trough will likely be to slow the forward motion of Andres and temporarily make it move more toward the northwest.\u00a0 After the upper level trough moves off to the northeast, the ridge is likely to strengthen again.\u00a0 As the ridge strengthens, it will start to steer Andres more toward the west.\u00a0 On its projected track Andres poses no current threat to Mexico.<\/p>\n
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A favorable environment caused Tropical Depression One-E to intensify quickly into Tropical Storm Andres on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Andres was located at latitude 11.8\u00b0N and longitude 113.3\u00b0W which put it about 800 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.\u00a0 Andres was moving toward the […]<\/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":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}