A small area of low pressure developed east of the Bahamas on Wednesday afternoon and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Invest 91L,\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Invest 91L was located at latitude 26.6\u00b0N and longitude 67.7\u00b0W which put it about 625 miles (1005 km) east of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and about 895 miles (1445 km) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Invest 91L was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was he 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1015 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Invest 91L is not well organized at the current time.\u00a0 A small center of circulation was evident on late afternoon visible satellite imagery.\u00a0 Several thin bands of showers are on the eastern side of the center of circulation.\u00a0 However, there are very few taller thunderstorms and the circulation probably does not have a warm core at the moment.<\/p>\n
Although Invest 91L is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is between 26\u00b0C and 27\u00b0C, the atmospheric environment is currently unfavorable for further development.\u00a0 An upper level trough near Florida is causing strong southwesterly winds to blow over the top of Invest 91L and there is significant vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear is quickly dissipating any thunderstorms that start to form.\u00a0 Invest 91L is forecast to move west-northwest into a more favorable environment in about a day or two.\u00a0 If the system moves west, it will move into an area where the upper level winds are not as strong.\u00a0 If the surface circulation is still intact at that time, less vertical wind shear could allow for the system to intensify.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center places the probability of development of a tropical cyclone or subtropical cyclone within the next five days at 60%.<\/p>\n
Since Invest 91L primarily exists in the lower levels, it will be steered by winds in the lower troposphere.\u00a0 A surface high pressure system centered off the southeast coast of the U.S. is forecast to move north of Invest 91L and the high will steer the system west-northwest toward the coast of the U.S.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Invest 91L could move near the southeast coast of the U.S. during the weekend.<\/p>\n
If Invest 91L intensifies, the highest probability is that it could become a tropical depression or tropical storm as it approaches the U.S.\u00a0 It could generate coastal erosion, rip currents and locally heavy rainfall.\u00a0 The threat for wind damage appears to be minimal at the current time.\u00a0 People near the coast should monitor trusted sources of weather information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A small area of low pressure developed east of the Bahamas on Wednesday afternoon and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Invest 91L,\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Invest 91L was located at latitude 26.6\u00b0N and longitude 67.7\u00b0W which put it about 625 miles (1005 km) east of Great […]<\/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":[375,51,98,374,100,99,311,97,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"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=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}