Tropical Depression Cristobal meandered over the Yucatan peninsula on Thursday. At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Depression Cristobal was located at latitude 17.8\u00b0N and longitude 90.4\u00b0W which put it about 145 miles (235 km) south of Campeche, Mexico.\u00a0 Cristobal was moving toward the east at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Cristobal weakened on Thursday while the circulation meandered over the Yucatan peninsula.\u00a0 Winds speeds gradually diminished because much of the circulation of Cristobal was over land.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 There were still strong thunderstorms in bands in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Some of those bands were dropping heavy rain over the Yucatan peninsula, northern Belize and northern Guatemala.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Cristobal will move around the western end of a high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea during the next several days.\u00a0 The high will steer Cristobal toward the north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Depression Cristobal will move over the southern Gulf of Mexico on Friday.\u00a0 Cristobal could approach the coast around the northern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Cristobal will move into an environment somewhat favorable for intensification when it moves over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 Cristobal will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western side of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce southerly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will be large enough to slow intensification but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent strengthening of Cristobal.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Cristobal is likely to intensify back into a tropical storm over the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Cristobal could approach the coast of Louisiana on Sunday.\u00a0 Watches could be issued for portions of the coast on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Cristobal meandered over the Yucatan peninsula on Thursday. At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Depression Cristobal was located at latitude 17.8\u00b0N and longitude 90.4\u00b0W which put it about 145 miles (235 km) south of Campeche, Mexico.\u00a0 Cristobal was moving toward the east at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[387,386,384,2039,2045,51,717,24,493,112,2048,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643"}],"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=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}