A low pressure system formed over the western Caribbean Sea on Sunday.\u00a0 The U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Invest 97L.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Invest 97L was located at latitude 15.7\u00b0N and longitude 92.8\u00b0W which put the center about 425 miles (690 km) southeast of Cozmel, Mexico.\u00a0 The low pressure system was moving toward the north-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 25 m.p.h. (40 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system formed over the western Caribbean Sea northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on Sunday.\u00a0 Thunderstorms developed in the eastern side of the low pressure that was over the western Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 Much of the western side of Invest 97L was over Honduras and Nicaragua.\u00a0 Bands in the western side of the low pressure system consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n
The low pressure system designated as Invest 97L will move through an environment favorable for the formation of a tropical cyclone during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Invest 97L The tropical depression will be over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the middle of an upper level ridge over the western Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the middle of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Invest 97L is likely to form into a tropical depression or a tropical storm on Monday.<\/p>\n
A reconnaissance plane is tentatively scheduled to investigated the low pressure system on Monday afternoon, if necessary.<\/p>\n
The low pressure system designated as Invest 97L will move around the western end of a high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Invest 97L toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the low pressure system will move over the northwestern Caribbean Sea on Monday.\u00a0 Invest 97L is likely to move into the Gulf of Mexico by the middle of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A low pressure system formed over the western Caribbean Sea on Sunday.\u00a0 The U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Invest 97L.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Invest 97L was located at latitude 15.7\u00b0N and longitude 92.8\u00b0W which put the center about 425 miles (690 km) southeast of Cozmel, Mexico.\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":[438,440,2154,2163,38,436,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175"}],"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=21175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21176,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions\/21176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}