Tropical Depression Eight formed east of the Bahamas on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression Eight was located at latitude 25.3\u00b0N and longitude 70.3\u00b0W which put it about 470 miles (755 km) east of Nassau, Bahamas.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1011 mb.<\/p>\n
Data from satellites and NOAA buoy 41046 indicated that a low level center of circulation formed within former Invest 99L.\u00a0 Based on those data the National Hurricane Center classified the system as Tropical Depression Eight.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms began to develop in Invest 99L on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 There were more bands in the eastern half of the circulation than there were in the western half.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in the bands began to generate upper level divergence which was pumping away mass.\u00a0 The circulation took on a more circular appearance and they system exhibited the characteristics of a tropical depression.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Eight will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 36 to 48 hours.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper low that was inhibiting the development of Invest 99L dissipated on Saturday.\u00a0 When the upper low dissipated, the upper level winds weakened.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Eight will move through an area where there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 It will likely strengthen into Tropical Storm Gert on Sunday.\u00a0 It could eventually intensify into a hurricane.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Eight is moving around the western end of the subtropical high over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high is steering the depression toward the north-northwest and it is forecast to move primarily toward the north during the next 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Eight will eventually reach the westerly winds in the middle latitudes and it will turn toward the northeast when that happens.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Depression Eight will remain east of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Eight formed east of the Bahamas on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression Eight was located at latitude 25.3\u00b0N and longitude 70.3\u00b0W which put it about 470 miles (755 km) east of Nassau, Bahamas.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[172,171,31,97,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501"}],"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=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}