Reconnaissance aircraft investigating Tropical Depression Karl on Thursday afternoon found that it had intensified into a tropical storm again and a Tropical Storm Warning was issued for Bermuda.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Karl was located at latitude 25.5\u00b0N and longitude 63.2\u00b0W which put it about 480 miles (770 km) south-southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Karl was moving toward the northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 structure of Tropical Storm Karl became more organized on Thursday, but the circulation is not well organized.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms are occurring in a primary rainband that spirals around the eastern and northern portions of the circulation.\u00a0 There are other fragmented rainbands farther to the east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 There are few thunderstorms or bands south and west of the center and there may be drier air in that part of Tropical Storm Karl.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the primary rainband were beginning to generate some upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl is moving into an environment that is more favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Karl is moving farther away from an upper level low that is west of the the tropical storm.\u00a0 As the distance between Tropical Storm Karl and the upper low increases, the vertical wind shear will decrease.\u00a0 Karl is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Karl is likely to intensify slowly until the primary rainband wraps around the center of circulation.\u00a0 If a tight inner core develops at the center of Karl, then it could intensify more quickly after that happens.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl is moving around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system.\u00a0 The high is steering Karl in a generally northwesterly direction.\u00a0 Karl is likely to move more toward the north as it goes around the western end of the high.\u00a0 When Karl gets northwest of the axis of the high pressure system, the westerly winds in the middle latitudes will start to turn it more toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Karl could be near Bermuda in about 36 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Karl could bring wind and rain to Bermuda during the weekend.<\/p>\n
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Reconnaissance aircraft investigating Tropical Depression Karl on Thursday afternoon found that it had intensified into a tropical storm again and a Tropical Storm Warning was issued for Bermuda.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Karl was located at latitude 25.5\u00b0N and longitude 63.2\u00b0W which put it about 480 miles (770 […]<\/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":[269,268,31,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"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=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}