The threat posed by a low pressure system over the Southwestern Caribbean Sea prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Warning for Jamaica and a Hurricane Watch for the Cayman Islands on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 The low pressure system was designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen by the U.S. National Hurricane Center.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen was located at latitude 13.0\u00b0N and longitude 77.1\u00b0W which put the center about 345 miles (555 km) south of Kingston, Jamaica.\u00a0 The low pressure system was moving toward the northeast at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1004 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac.<\/span><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Jamaica.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft investigated a low pressure system over the Southwestern Caribbean Sea on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 The aircraft found that there was a distinct low low level center of circulation in the low pressure system.\u00a0 More thunderstorms were forming near the center of the low pressure system.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were starting to revolve around the center of Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen.\u00a0 Storms near the center of the low pressure system began to generate upper level divergence.<\/p>\n Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The low pressure system will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western end of an upper level ridge over the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce southeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of the low pressure system.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 It is likely to become a tropical storm on Monday.<\/p>\n Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen will reach Jamaica on Monday night.\u00a0 It could reach the Cayman Islands on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen will bring strong winds and heavy rain Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Subtropical Storm Patty moved east of the Azores.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Subtropical Storm Patty was located at latitude 37.3\u00b0N and longitude 22.3\u00b0W which put the center about 280 miles (450 km) east-southeast of Lajes, Azores.\u00a0 Patty was moving toward the east 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 990 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The threat posed by a low pressure system over the Southwestern Caribbean Sea prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Warning for Jamaica and a Hurricane Watch for the Cayman Islands on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 The low pressure system was designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen by the U.S. National Hurricane Center.\u00a0 At 4:00 p.m. EST […]<\/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":[840,865,841,866,318,2546,707,2336,448,2323,1783,2545,3792,864,3791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520"}],"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=21520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21521,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions\/21521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}