Tropical Depression Seventeen formed well east of the Leeward Islands on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression Seventeen was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0N and longitude 41.5\u00b0W which put it about 1475 miles (2290 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the west at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around a large low pressure system over the tropical Atlantic Ocean east of the Leeward Islands exhibited more organization on Sunday night and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Seventeen.\u00a0 The circulation around the depression was still organizing.\u00a0 There was a broad center of rotation in the middle of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving the broad center.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms were in bands on the eastern side of the depression.\u00a0 Storms in bands around the broad center began to generate upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the depression.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Seventeen will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next day or two.\u00a0 The depression will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The large size of the tropical depression and the broad center of circulation will limit the rate at which the depression intensifies.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Seventeen is likely to strengthen into a tropical storm on Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Seventeen will move south of a subtropical high pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer the depression slowly toward the west during the next day or two.\u00a0 There is a large circulation around a strong tropical wave to the east of Tropical Depression Seventeen.\u00a0 It is possible that the tropical wave strengthens into a tropical cyclone.\u00a0 If that happens, then the large circulation could pull the depression back to the east or at least retard its movement toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the tropical depression could be northeast of the Leeward islands in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Seventeen formed well east of the Leeward Islands on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression Seventeen was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0N and longitude 41.5\u00b0W which put it about 1475 miles (2290 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the west at […]<\/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":[840,841,140,1774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293"}],"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=10293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10294,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293\/revisions\/10294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}