Tropical Storm Amanda dropped heavy rain on parts of Guatemala and El Salvador on Sunday.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Amanda was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 90.4\u00b0W which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south-southeast of Guatemala City, Guatemala.\u00a0 Amanda was moving toward the north-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings remained in effect for the entire coasts of Guatemala and El Salvador.<\/p>\n
The circulation around former Tropical Depression Two-E strengthened on Sunday morning as it approached the coast of Guatemala and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Amanda.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 50 miles (80 km) on the eastern side of Amanda.\u00a0 Winds on the western side of the circulation were mostly less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
The heaviest rain in Tropical Storm Amanda was falling near the center of circulation and in bands on the eastern side of the circulation.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Amanda was located on the eastern side of a much larger counterclockwise circulation that is sometimes called a Central American Gyre (CAG).\u00a0 The CAG will steer Amanda toward the north during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Amanda will move across Guatemala toward the southern Yucatan peninsula.\u00a0 Amanda will drop locally heavy rain over parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize and eastern Mexico.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
The lower level part of the circulation of Tropical Storm Amanda will weaken while the tropical storm moves over land.\u00a0 The circulation of Amanda that is above the surface could move over the Bay of Campeche early next week.\u00a0 A new tropical cyclone could form over the Bay of Campeche if that happens.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center is indicating that there is a 50% probability of the formation of a tropical cyclone over the Bay of Campeche during the next five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Amanda dropped heavy rain on parts of Guatemala and El Salvador on Sunday.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Amanda was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 90.4\u00b0W which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south-southeast of Guatemala City, Guatemala.\u00a0 Amanda was moving toward the north-northeast at […]<\/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":[399,2036,33,58,579,400,450,2037,24,2035,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591"}],"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=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9592,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions\/9592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}