Tropical Storm Ian formed on Monday in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Ian was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0N and longitude 50.4\u00b0W which put it about 1140 miles (1840 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Ian was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 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. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1007 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Ian is not well organized.\u00a0 A large upper low west of Ian is generating strong southwesterly winds which are blowing across the top of the tropical storm.\u00a0 There is a large cyclonic circulation in the lower levels, but there are no thunderstorms near the center of circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are forming northeast of the center in a rainband that is well removed from the core of the storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ian will through a hostile environment during the next several days.\u00a0 Although Ian will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C, the upper level trough will continue to cause strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Ian is not likely to strengthen in the short term.\u00a0 Eventually, later this week Ian will move farther from the upper level trough and it could strengthen somewhat at that time, if the low level circulation persists.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ian is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it toward the northwest and that general motion is expected to continue for another day or two.\u00a0 When Ian moves farther north, it will turn toward the northeast and the tropical storm will begin to move faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Ian formed on Monday in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Ian was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0N and longitude 50.4\u00b0W which put it about 1140 miles (1840 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Ian was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (21 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/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":[185,184,31,322,518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998"}],"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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}