Gert intensified to a hurricane west of Bermuda on Monday.\u00a0 Gert became the second Atlantic hurricane of 2017 and it is the second hurricane to form during the past six days.\u00a0 Hurricane Franklin developed over the southern Gulf of Mexico last week.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Hurricane Gert was located at latitude 31.2\u00b0N and longitude 72.3\u00b0W which put it about 445 miles (720 km) west of Bermuda.\u00a0 Gert was moving toward the north at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 986 mb.<\/p>\n
An eye appeared on satellite images of Hurricane Gert at various times on Monday and it looked more like a hurricane.\u00a0 There was a somewhat elliptical eye at the center of Hurricane Gert on Monday night.\u00a0 The ring of thunderstorms around the eye did not completely surround the eye.\u00a0 There was a large break on the northwest side of the eye.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms were occurring in the southeastern half of Gert.\u00a0 There were fewer showers and thunderstorms in the northwestern half of the hurricane.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the core of Gert were generating upper level divergence which was pumping out mass to the south of the hurricane.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Gert will be an environment that will be favorable for intensification for another 24 to 48 hours.\u00a0 Gert will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge centered northwest of Gert is producing northerly winds which are blowing toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are producing some vertical wind shear and they may be responsible for the asymmetrical distribution of showers and thunderstorms.\u00a0 However, the vertical wind shear should not be strong enough to prevent Hurricane Gert from intensifying further.\u00a0 An upper level trough will approach Gert from the west, but before the trough reaches the hurricane, the wind shear will decrease and a period of rapid intensification could occur.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Gert is moving around the western end of a subtropical high over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high is steering Gert slowly toward the north.\u00a0 When the upper level trough approaches Gert, southwesterly winds will start to steer the hurricane toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Gert should pass northwest of Bermuda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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