Tropical Storm Gordon formed east of the Leeward Islands on Friday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Gordon was located at latitude 19.4\u00b0N and longitude 38.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1640 miles (2650 km) east of the Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Gordon was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 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 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean between the Leeward Islands and the Cabo Verde Islands strengthened on Friday morning and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Gordon.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms in Gordon’s circulation was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the eastern side of Tropical Storm Gordon.\u00a0 Bands in the western side of Gordon’s circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
The distribution of winds speeds around Tropical Storm Gordon was also asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles (95 km) in the eastern side of Gordon’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the western side of Tropical Storm Gordon were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gordon will move through an environment mostly unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Gordon will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southeastern part of an upper level ridge over the subtropical Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Gordon’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Gordon will also move through a region of very dry air.\u00a0 The dry air will make if difficult for new thunderstorms to develop.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Gordon could weaken to a tropical depression during the weekend because of the dry air.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gordon will move around the south side of the subtropical high pressure system will steer Gordon to the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Gordon will remain far to the east of the Leeward Islands during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the circulation of former Hurricane Francine was meandering over the Lower Mississippi River Valley.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Depression Francine was located at latitude 35.8\u00b0N and longitude 91.4\u00b0W which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) north-northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Francine was moving toward the southeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 15 m.p.h. (25 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 25 m.p.h. (40 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Gordon formed east of the Leeward Islands on Friday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Gordon was located at latitude 19.4\u00b0N and longitude 38.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1640 miles (2650 km) east of the Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Gordon was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 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":[154,483,156,160,115,760,3704,1218,140,2053,3714,1220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107"}],"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=21107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21108,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions\/21108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}