Tropical Depression Twentytwo formed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening and Hurricane Teddy intensified to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Depression Twentytwo was located at latitude 22.0\u00b0N and longitude 94.2\u00b0W which put it about 235 miles (380 km) east of Tampico, Mexico.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the northeast 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 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane determined that a low level center of circulation was present in a low pressure system over the western Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Twentytwo.\u00a0 The circulation around the depression was still organizing.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were developing.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation began to generate upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical depression.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Twentytwo will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 The depression will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level low near the Rio Grande Valley will produce southerly winds which will blow toward the top of the depression.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The shear will inhibit intensification, but the depression is likely to strengthen into a tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Twentytwo will be in an area where the steering currents are weak.\u00a0 The upper low over the Rio Grande Valley could pull the depression toward the north, but the depression could meander over the western Gulf of Mexico for several days.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Hurricane Teddy strengthened to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale southeast of Bermuda on Thursday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Teddy was located at latitude 20.9\u00b0N and longitude 54.7\u00b0W which put it about 1005 miles (1615 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Teddy was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 140 m.p.h. (220 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 170 m.p.h. (280 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 945 mb.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Teddy could be near Bermuda by Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Twentytwo formed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening and Hurricane Teddy intensified to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Depression Twentytwo was located at latitude 22.0\u00b0N and longitude 94.2\u00b0W which put it about 235 miles (380 km) east of Tampico, […]<\/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":[1822,2223,1823,2224,31,2221,113,24,2225,2213,112,2222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397"}],"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=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}