Former Tropical Depression Eleven strengthened to Tropical Storm Josephine on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Josephine was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 49.2\u00b0W which put it about 975 miles (1565 km) east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Josephine was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Satellite imagery indicated that the circulation around former Tropical Depression Eleven exhibited better organization on Thursday morning and the National Hurricane Center upgraded the system to Tropical Storm Josephine.\u00a0 Although the circulation around Tropical Storm Josephine was more organized, the distribution of thunderstorms and wind speeds was still asymmetrical.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the northwestern part of Josephine.\u00a0 Bands in other parts of the tropical storm consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) on the northern side of Tropical Storm Josephine.\u00a0 The winds in the southern half of the circulation were mostly weaker than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Josephine will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next day or so.\u00a0 Josephine will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Josephine is forecast to strengthen during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Josephine will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the North Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Josephine toward the west-northwest during he next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Josephine could be near the northern Leeward Islands on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Depression Eleven strengthened to Tropical Storm Josephine on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Josephine was located at latitude 13.7\u00b0N and longitude 49.2\u00b0W which put it about 975 miles (1565 km) east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Josephine was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[208,205,2134,140,20,2133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050"}],"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=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}