A reconnaissance aircraft found westerly winds in the southeastern side of a low pressure system over the Southeastern Bahamas and was able to close off a center of circulation.\u00a0 As a result the National Hurricane Center classified the low as Tropical Depression Four (TD4).\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of TD4 was located at latitude 21.8\u00b0N and longitude 72.3\u00b0W which put it about 75 miles northeast of Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas and about 560 miles east-southeast of Miami, Florida.\u00a0 TD4 was moving toward the northwest at 12 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. and the minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings have been issued for the Southeastern Bahamas including The Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay, The Inaguas, Mayaguana and the Ragged Islands as well as The Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas including Cat Island, The Exumas, Long Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador.<\/p>\n
A small upper low north of Cuba is causing some wind shear over the western portion of TD4.\u00a0 On the other hand the Sea Surface Temperatures around The Bahamas are very warm and TD4 is very likely to intensify into Tropical Storm Cristobal and eventually into a hurricane.\u00a0 Since the center has just formed the motion and future track are still highly uncertain, although a general motion toward the southeastern U.S. seems likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A reconnaissance aircraft found westerly winds in the southeastern side of a low pressure system over the Southeastern Bahamas and was able to close off a center of circulation.\u00a0 As a result the National Hurricane Center classified the low as Tropical Depression Four (TD4).\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of TD4 was […]<\/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":[28,29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}