Tropical Storm Maria brought gusty winds and big waves to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Maria was located at latitude 34.9\u00b0N and longitude 72.9\u00b0W which put it about 150 miles (240 km) east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.\u00a0 Maria was moving toward the north at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 975 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Bogue Inlet, North Carolina to the North Carolina\/Virginia border including Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.<\/p>\n
Most of the showers and thunderstorms are occurring in the eastern half of the circulation of Tropical Storm Maria.\u00a0 The strongest winds are also occurring in the eastern half of Maria.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 230 miles (370 km) east of the center of circulation and about 185 miles (295 km) to the west of the center.\u00a0 A NOAA buoy (41025) at Diamond Shoals was reporting sustained winds to near tropical storm force.\u00a0 The large size and slow movement of Tropical Storm Maria were causing large waves that were reaching the Outer Banks of North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Maria is moving around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Maria slowly toward the north on Wednesday.\u00a0 An upper level trough approaching the eastern U.S. will start to steer Maria toward the east on Thursday.\u00a0 The upper level trough will push Tropical Storm Maria away from the U.S. on Friday.\u00a0 When Maria moves over cooler water it will make a transition to an extratropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, small Hurricane Lee neared major hurricane intensity.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Lee was located at latitude 30.0\u00b0N and longitude 55.5\u00b0W which put it about 570 miles (920 km) east-southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Lee was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 971 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lee has a small, well organized circulation.\u00a0 There is a small eye at the center of circulation.\u00a0 The eye is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms are revolving close to the core of Hurricane Lee.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force only extend out about 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 60 miles (95 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Lee could intensify into a major hurricane on Wednesday.\u00a0 Lee will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds will be weak on Wednesday and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Wind shear will increase later in the week when the upper level trough approaching the eastern U.S. gets closer to Hurricane Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Maria brought gusty winds and big waves to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Maria was located at latitude 34.9\u00b0N and longitude 72.9\u00b0W which put it about 150 miles (240 km) east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.\u00a0 Maria 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":[540,551,541,552,31,833,100,322,827,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904"}],"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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}