After several days when Tropical Storm Karl was poorly organized and barely maintained tropical storm intensity, Karl intensified a little late on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Karl was located at latitude 19.7\u00b0N and longitude 50.5\u00b0W which put it about 760 miles (1225 km) east-northeast of the Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Karl was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (70 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Although the structure of Tropical Storm Karl improved a little during the past few hours, it is still not a well organized storm.\u00a0 A cluster of thunderstorms (sometimes called a Central Dense Overcast or CDO) formed near the core of Tropical Storm Karl.\u00a0 Additional thunderstorms developed in fragmented rainbands, which are primarily in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The cluster of thunderstorms near the core of the circulation is beginning to generate upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl is moving into a more favorable environment.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level low to the west of Karl has been causing strong vertical wind shear over the top of the tropical storm.\u00a0 However, the upper low is moving farther west of Karl and the vertical wind shear is lessening.\u00a0 Warm SSTs and less vertical wind shear allowed Tropical Storm Karl to begin to get a little better organized.\u00a0 Karl is likely to intensify slowly while the circulation organizes and a more well define structure develops.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Karl will move over warmer SSTs during the next few days and it is forecast to become a hurricane later this week.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl is moving around the southwestern portion of a subtropical ridge which is steering it toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 Karl is likely to turn more toward the northwest during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Karl is likely to move northeast of the Leeward Islands and head in the general direction of Bermuda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After several days when Tropical Storm Karl was poorly organized and barely maintained tropical storm intensity, Karl intensified a little late on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Karl was located at latitude 19.7\u00b0N and longitude 50.5\u00b0W which put it about 760 miles (1225 km) east-northeast of the Leeward […]<\/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":[269,268,31,140,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059"}],"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=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}