Former Tropical Depression Twentytwo strengthened into Tropical Storm Beta over the western Gulf of Mexico on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropcial Storm Beta was located at latitude 24.3\u00b0N and longitude 93.1\u00b0W which put it about 280 miles (450 km) east-southeast of the Mouth of the Rio Grande River.\u00a0 Beta was moving toward the north-northeast at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
Even though Tropical Storm Beta strengthened on Friday, the circulation was asymmetrical.\u00a0 An upper level trough over Texas was producing south-southwesterly winds which were blowing toward the top of Beta.\u00a0 Those winds were causing moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Because of the wind shear, the stronger thunderstorms were occurring in bands on the northern side of Tropical Storm Beta.\u00a0 Bands in the southern half of the tropical storm consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) on the northern side of Beta.\u00a0 Winds in the southern half of the circulation were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Beta will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Beta will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level trough over Texas will weaken and gradually move away from Tropical Storm Beta.\u00a0 When the trough moves away from Beta, the wind shear will decrease and Beta will be able to intensify more easily.\u00a0 There is a chance Tropical Storm Beta could intensify into a hurricane in two or three days.<\/p>\n
The steering pattern around Tropical Storm Beta will be complex.\u00a0 The upper level trough over Texas is likely to steer Beta toward the north during the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Then a large cool high pressure system over the eastern U.S.\u00a0 will block Tropical Storm Beta from moving any farther to the north.\u00a0 The high will steer Beta to the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Beta could approach the coast of Texas by the end of the weekend.\u00a0 Beta could move more toward the northeast when the high pressure system starts to shift toward the east early next week.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Hurricane Teddy continued to move toward Bermuda, Subtropical Storm Alpha made landfall in Portugal and Tropical Storm Wilfred developed over the eastern Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Teddy was located at latitude 23.1\u00b0N and longitude 57.0\u00b0W which put it about 795 miles (1275 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Teddy was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 951 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Watch was issued for Bermuda.<\/span><\/p>\n At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Subtropical Storm Alpha was located at latitude 40.8\u00b0N and longitude 8.4\u00b0W which put it about 120 miles (195 km) north-northeast of Lisbon, Portugal.\u00a0 Alpha was moving toward the northeast at 17 m.p.h. (28 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 998 mb.<\/p>\n At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Wilfred was located at latitude 12.5\u00b0N and longitude 34.4\u00b0W which put it about 735 miles (1185 km) west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.\u00a0 Wilfred was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1008 mb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Tropical Depression Twentytwo strengthened into Tropical Storm Beta over the western Gulf of Mexico on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropcial Storm Beta was located at latitude 24.3\u00b0N and longitude 93.1\u00b0W which put it about 280 miles (450 km) east-southeast of the Mouth of the Rio Grande River.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[1822,2223,2230,1823,2224,2231,2233,31,2227,2090,2221,2234,113,24,843,2232,2213,112,2226,2228,2229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404"}],"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=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}