Tropical Depression Eight strengthened to Tropical Storm Gert on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Gert was located at latitude 28.1\u00b0N and longitude 71.7\u00b0W which put it about 505 miles (810 km) west-southwest of Bermuda.\u00a0 Gert was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1011 mb.<\/p>\n
The structure of Tropical Storm Gert improved on Sunday.\u00a0 Numerous bands of showers and thunderstorms developed and began to rotate around the center of circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms began to produce upper level divergence which was pumping out mass in all directions.\u00a0 The circulation of Tropical Storm Gert became more circular and symmetrical.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gert will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Gert will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds over Tropical Storm Gert are weak and there is not much vertical wind shear.\u00a0 There is an upper level ridge northwest of Tropical Storm Gert and the ridge is producing northeasterly winds west of Bermuda.\u00a0 So, the vertical wind shear could increase when Gert moves farther north.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Gert will continue to intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gert is moving around the western end of the subtropical high pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high is steering Gert toward the north-northwest and a northerly motion is\u00a0 expected to continue for another 24 hours.\u00a0 When Gert moves west of Bermuda, it will start to encounter the westerly winds in the middle latitudes.\u00a0 Those winds should turn Tropical Storm Gert toward the northeast in a day or so.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Gert is expected to move east of the U.S. and west of Bermuda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Eight strengthened to Tropical Storm Gert on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Gert was located at latitude 28.1\u00b0N and longitude 71.7\u00b0W which put it about 505 miles (810 km) west-southwest of Bermuda.\u00a0 Gert was moving toward the north-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 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":[172,171,31,97,489,776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"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=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}