Tropical Storm Milton formed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Milton was located at latitude 22.3\u00b0N and longitude 95.3\u00b0W which put the center about 365 miles (590 km) west-northwest of Progreso, Mexico.\u00a0 Milton was moving toward the north-northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 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 western Gulf of Mexico strengthened on Saturday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Milton.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Milton was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the western half of Milton’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern half of Tropical Storm Milton consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Milton’s circulation began to generate upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Milton move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Milton will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 31\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the axis of an upper level ridge over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak near the axis of the ridge and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Milton will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Milton is likely to strengthen to a hurricane by early next week.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Milton will move around the western end of a high pressure system that extends over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Milton slowly toward the northeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 An upper level trough over the central U.S. will steer Milton more quickly toward the east-northeast early next week.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Milton will approach the west coast of Florida on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Milton is very likely to be a hurricane when it approaches the west coast of Florida.\u00a0 Milton could be a major hurricane.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Hurricane Kirk and Hurricane Leslie continued to churn over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Kirk was located at latitude 27.6\u00b0N and longitude 50.3\u00b0W which put the center about 1525 miles (2455 km) west-southwest of the Azores.\u00a0 Kirk was moving toward the north at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 120 m.p.h. (195 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 140 m.p.h. (225 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 949 mb.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Leslie was located at latitude 11.1\u00b0N and longitude 35.4\u00b0W which put the center about 785 miles (1260 km) west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.\u00a0 Leslie was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 95 m.p.h. (150 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Milton formed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Milton was located at latitude 22.3\u00b0N and longitude 95.3\u00b0W which put the center about 365 miles (590 km) west-northwest of Progreso, Mexico.\u00a0 Milton was moving toward the north-northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 […]<\/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":[269,528,540,268,527,541,318,760,51,3766,1298,1281,1299,24,3771,2258,3770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308"}],"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=21308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21311,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308\/revisions\/21311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}