Tropical Storm Julia moved slowly eastward on Thursday which took it farther from the Southeastern coast of the U.S.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Julia was located at latitude 32.1\u00b0N and longitude 77.1\u00b0W which put it about 150 miles (245 km) south-southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina.\u00a0 Julia was moving toward the east at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 1007 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Julia is not well organized.\u00a0 All of the stronger thunderstorms are well to the east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The broad low level circulation is elongated from the west-southwest of the east-northeast.\u00a0 There are no thunderstorms close to the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Julia is in an environment that is unfavorable for intensification.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is sufficient energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 However, upper level westerly winds are causing strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The upper level winds have at least temporarily blown the upper part of the circulation east of the lower third of the circulation.\u00a0 As long as the upper level winds are as strong as they are now, Tropical Storm Julia will slowly weaken.\u00a0 If the upper level winds slow down, then more thunderstorms could develop near the center and Julia could get a little stronger.\u00a0 With the current strong vertical wind shear Tropical Storm Julia should slowly weaken during the next few hours.<\/p>\n
The vertical structure of Tropical Storm Julia maintained enough integrity that the westerly winds pushed the thunderstorms toward the east and they dragged the low level center with them.\u00a0 However, it now appears that the vertical parts of the circulation have separated.\u00a0 The low level circulation is being steered slowly back toward the southwest by a surface high pressure system to the north of Julia.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Julia could move erratically during the next several days.\u00a0 As long as no thunderstorms form near the center, it will drift slowly toward the southwest.\u00a0 Any time thunderstorms form near the center of circulation, the taller storm will be pushed toward the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Julia moved slowly eastward on Thursday which took it farther from the Southeastern coast of the U.S.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Julia was located at latitude 32.1\u00b0N and longitude 77.1\u00b0W which put it about 150 miles (245 km) south-southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina.\u00a0 Julia was moving […]<\/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":[208,205,31,51,98,100,99,519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022"}],"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=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}