A center of circulation developed in a system previously designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven and the National Hurricane Center named the system Tropical Storm Franklin on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Franklin was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 83.0\u00b0W which put it about 380 miles (610 km) east-southeast of Chetumal, Mexico.\u00a0 Franklin was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Chetumal to Campeche, Mexico.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the portion of the coast from Belize City, Belize northward to the Belize\/Mexico border.<\/p>\n
Visible satellite images just before sunset suggested that a center of circulation had formed in the tropical wave previously designated Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven and the National Hurricane Center named it Tropical Storm Franklin.\u00a0 The circulation of Tropical Storm Franklin is still not well organized.\u00a0 The apparent center is located near the western edge of an area of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms are still forming east of the system, which indicates that vertical wind shear is probably still affecting the circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are producing some upper level divergence which is pumping mass away to the east of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
The environment ahead of Tropical Storm Franklin will become more favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Franklin will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Franklin is producing westerly winds which are causing the vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The trough is expected to weaken on Monday and when that happens the shear will diminish.\u00a0 Warm water and less shear should allow Tropical Storm Franklin to strengthen before it reaches the Yucatan peninsula.\u00a0 Franklin will weaken when it moves over land, but it is likely to re-intensify when it moves over the southern Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Franklin is being steered toward the west-northwest by a subtropical high centered over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 A general west-northwesterly motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Franklin could approach the Yucatan peninsula in about 24 hours.\u00a0 Franklin will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to that area.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause flooding in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A center of circulation developed in a system previously designated as Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven and the National Hurricane Center named the system Tropical Storm Franklin on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Franklin was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 83.0\u00b0W which put it about 380 miles […]<\/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":[483,160,58,449,24,571,762,766,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435"}],"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=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}