An area of low pressure organized quickly after it moved off the coast of West Africa and the National Hurricane Center designated it as Tropical Storm Fred.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Fred was located at latitude 14.1\u00b0N and longitude 20.7\u00b0W which put it about 195 miles (315 km) east-southeast of Praia in the Cape Verde Islands.\u00a0 Fred was moving toward the northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.\u00a0 A Hurricane Warning has been issued for the Cape Verde Islands.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Fred was a well organized low pressure system when it moved over the eastern Atlantic Ocean from West Africa.\u00a0 The input of energy from the ocean enhanced the existing thunderstorms and the low pressure system quickly reached the intensity necessary to be classified as a tropical storm.\u00a0 The circulation continued to organize further on Sunday.\u00a0 A primary rainband has wrapped almost entirely around the center of circulation.\u00a0 A small eye and an eyewall may be forming and other spiral bands of thunderstorms are developing.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.\u00a0 Fred is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are near 27\u00b0C to 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The winds in the upper levels are relatively light and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The favorable environmental conditions are allowing Fred to intensify rapidly and it could become a hurricane tonight.\u00a0 As Fred moves farther toward the northwest, it will start to move over cooler SSTs and into a region where there is more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 As a result, Fred is likely to weaken back to tropical storm intensity later this week.<\/p>\n
There is a weaker area in the subtropical ridge over the Atlantic Ocean and Fred is moving northwest toward that area.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to strengthen during the week and as it strengthens it will cause Fred to move more toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Fred will reach the Cape Verde Islands in about 12 hours.\u00a0 It could bring strong winds and heavy rain when it move across those islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An area of low pressure organized quickly after it moved off the coast of West Africa and the National Hurricane Center designated it as Tropical Storm Fred.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Fred was located at latitude 14.1\u00b0N and longitude 20.7\u00b0W which put it about 195 miles (315 km) […]<\/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":[154,152,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}