A center of circulation quickly organized within a tropical wave on Monday night and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Gaston.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Gaston was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0N and longitude 30.7\u00b0W which put it about 450 miles (725 km) west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.\u00a0 Gaston was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (30 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 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation consolidated rapidly around the center of Tropical Storm Gaston on Monday.\u00a0 Several spiral bands of thunderstorms formed close to the center and additional bands formed farther from the center.\u00a0 The thunderstorms near the center began to generate upper level divergence, which pumped mass away from the center.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gaston is moving through an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Gaston is likely continue to intensify steadily during the next several days and it is expected to become a hurricane.\u00a0 Once a tightly organized core consolidates completely, Gaston could undergo a period of more rapid intensification.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Tropical Storm Gaston toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for a day or so.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to weaken northwest of Gaston, and the tropical storm is expected to turn more toward the north during the middle of the week.\u00a0 Gaston could be moving out into the Central Atlantic Ocean by the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation quickly organized within a tropical wave on Monday night and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Gaston.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Gaston was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0N and longitude 30.7\u00b0W which put it about 450 miles (725 km) west-southwest of […]<\/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":[483,160,31,152,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838"}],"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=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}