Tropical Storm Karl continued to move steadily toward Bermuda on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Karl was located at latitude 29.9\u00b0N and longitude 65.1\u00b0W which put it about 165 miles (270 km) south of Bermuda.\u00a0 Karl was moving toward the north at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Watch has been issued for Bermuda.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is also in effect for Bemruda.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl strengthened on Friday, but its structure remained asymmetrical.\u00a0 Almost all of the thunderstorms are in a primary rainband that wraps around the northern and western sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 There are few if any thunderstorms south and east of the center.\u00a0 It appears as it vertical wind shear is tilting the circulation toward the northwest.\u00a0 The upper level center appears to be located 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km) northwest of the low level center.\u00a0 The thunderstorms in the primary rainband are producing upper level divergence which is pumping out mass to the east of Tropical Storm Karl.\u00a0 The upper level divergence pumped out enough mass on Friday to allow the surface pressure to decrease by about 10 mb.\u00a0 However, the vertical wind shear and lack of thunderstorms to the east of the center limited the increase in wind speed at the surface.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is enough energy in the upper ocean to support a stronger storm.\u00a0 However, an upper level trough to the west of Karl is creating significant vertical wind shear, which is likely to limit intensification in the short term.\u00a0 When Tropical Storm Karl, turns east and moves farther from the upper level trough, the shear could decrease and Karl could strengthen.\u00a0 In addition Karl will begin a transition to an extratropical cyclone and that transition often produces and increase in the wind speed.\u00a0 So, Tropical Storm Karl does have a chance to become a hurricane during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Karl is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it toward the north.\u00a0 It is likely to keep moving in that direction for another six to twelve hours.\u00a0 When Tropical Storm Karl nears Bermuda it will encounter stronger westerly winds which will turn it eastward.\u00a0 Karl is likely to move quickly toward the east-northeast on Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Karl will pass near Bermuda on Saturday morning.\u00a0 It will bring a period of gusty winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Karl continued to move steadily toward Bermuda on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Karl was located at latitude 29.9\u00b0N and longitude 65.1\u00b0W which put it about 165 miles (270 km) south of Bermuda.\u00a0 Karl was moving toward the north at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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\/3083"}],"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=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}