A broad area of low pressure located about 300 miles southwest of Manzanillo Mexico continues to produce a large area of showers and thunderstorms. Although there are no signs of a well-defined
surface circulation at this time, environmental conditions are favorable for development and a tropical depression could form as this system moves slowly west-northwestward during [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Tropical Depression'
Tropical system outlook 21:00 baja time
September 14, 2009
Invest 97 – 11:00 am PDT on September 14, 2009
September 14, 2009
Image overlay shows with the darker brown/orange the computer model LEAR initialized Minday 8:00am EDT and with the white/purple BAMD also 8:00am. According to them models the storm would cross the Baja north of La Paz or near Loreto. The points indicate 12 hour time difference. Again: this are just computer models and indicate in [...]
Low chance to become a tropical cyclone
September 13, 2009
A large area of disturbed weather has developed several hundred miles south-southwest of the southwestern coast of Mexico. Environmental conditions appear favorable for some slow development of this system as it moves very little over the next day or two. There is a low chance – less than 30 percent – of this [...]
Tropical Depression Fifteen-E
September 7, 2009
Fifteenth tropical cyclone of the 2009 eastern North Pacific season forms. At 200 am PDT/0900 UTC the center of Tropical Depression Fifteen-E was located near latitude 15.5 north longitude 125.6 west or about 1145 miles/1840 km west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.
Jimena weakening over the Gulf of California
September 3, 2009
At 500 am PDT/1200 UTC the center of Tropical Storm Jimena was located near latitude 27.8 north/longitude 112.4 west or about 35 miles/55 km north-northwest of Santa Rosalia Mexico.
Jimena is moving toward the north near 6 mph/10 km/hr. A turn toward the northwest then west with a decrease in forward speed is expected later today [...]
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