Tropical Storm Jerry neared the Northern Leeward Islands on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Jerry was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 60.6\u00b0W which put the center about 175 miles (285 km) east-southeast of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Jerry was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (30 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1001 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for Anguilla, Barbuda, St. Barthelemy, St. Martin, Sint Maarten, and Guadeloupe.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Watches are in effect for Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Saba, and St. Eustatius.<\/span><\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Storm Jerry was still not well organized on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 Strong easterly winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere continued to push the bottom part of Tropical Storm Jerry to the northwest of the middle and upper level circulations.\u00a0 Bands near the center of the low level circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds. The bands in the western and northern sides of Jerry\u2019s circulation also consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds. Thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the southeastern part of Tropical Storm Jerry.<\/p>\n The strongest winds were occurring in the bands of thunderstorms in the southeastern part of Tropical Storm Jerry.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 175 miles (280 km) in the eastern side of Jerry\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) in the northwestern quadrant of Tropical Storm Jerry.\u00a0 The winds in the southwestern quadrant of Jerry were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Jerry will move through an environment that will be mostly unfavorable for development during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Jerry will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southeastern part of an upper level low that is north of Puerto Rico.\u00a0 The upper level low will produce westerly winds that will blow toward the top of Jerry\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Since strong easterly winds are blowing in the lower levels of the atmosphere, there will continue to be strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The strong vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Jerry could even weaken during the next 24 hours because of the strong vertical wind shear.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Jerry will move around the southwestern side of a high pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Jerry toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Jerry will pass near the Northern Leeward Islands on Thursday night.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Jerry will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Since the strongest winds are in the eastern part of Tropical Storm Jerry, the strongest winds may not hit the Northern Leeward Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Jerry neared the Northern Leeward Islands on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Jerry was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0N and longitude 60.6\u00b0W which put the center about 175 miles (285 km) east-southeast of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Jerry was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 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":[185,184,1689,1248,1690,1072,1688,1249,1252,2684,1075,3675,1074,1076,1251,1073,1687],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337"}],"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=23337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23338,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions\/23338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}