EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN *Full Update* NASA Sees Sandra's Center Still in Gulf of California
On Saturday, November 28 satellite data showed that the center of former Tropical Storm Sandra was close to land. However, imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite on Sunday, November 29, 2015 revealed that Sandra's center had not yet made an official landfall as it slowed over the southern Gulf of California.
At 1705 UTC (12:05 p.m. EST) on Nov. 29, Sandra's remnant low pressure area was located over the far southern gulf of California near 24 degrees north latitude and 108 degrees west longitude. Sandra had a minimum central pressure near 1010 millibars.
This GOES-West image from Nov. 29 at 1800 UTC (1 p.m. EST) shows the clouds associated with the remnants of Sandra in the southern Gulf of California, just off-shore and southwest of Culiacan, Mexico.
The National Hurricane Center reported that "the low is losing its identity...and will dissipate shortly as it finally moves inland the coast of Mexico over the state of Sinaloa. In its wake...strong high pressure over the Great Basin of the U.S. will interact with troughing (an elongated area of low pressure) near the Baja California peninsula, which will bring a quick surge of northwesterly to northerly winds of 20-25 knots down the entire length of the Gulf of California by early this evening. These winds increase to 30 knots by early on Monday, Nov. 30 with seas building to 9 feet. The winds then diminish slightly back to 20-25 knots early on Tuesday, Dec. 1 with seas of 8 to 9 feet.
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