Tropical Depression Sixteen strengthened into Tropical Storm Nate and Nate made landfall on the coast of northeastern Nicaragua on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nate was located at latitude 14.5\u00b0N and longitude 84.0\u00b0W which put it about 50 miles (80 km) south-southwest of Puerto Lempira, Honduras.\u00a0 Nate was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 1001 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Punta Herrero to Rio Lagartos, Mexico.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is also in effect from Punta Herrero to Rio Lagartos.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Sandy Bay Sirpi, Nicaragua to Punta Castilla, Honduras.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Depression Sixteen strengthened on Thursday morning before it made landfall in Nicaragua and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Nate.\u00a0 Showers and thunderstorms continue to develop near the center of circulation even though it is moving across northeastern Nicaragua.\u00a0 The winds to tropical storm force are occurring in bands of showers and storms east of the center over the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 The winds are weaker in the portions of the circulation that are over land.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nate will not strengthen while the center is over land.\u00a0 Nate will move into a favorable environment when it moves over the northwestern Caribbean Sea on Friday.\u00a0 The Sea Surface Temperature will be near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level low will cause southerly winds to blow toward the top of the circulation, but the vertical wind shear is not likely to be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 It could take a few hours for the inner core of the circulation to reorganize after it moves back over water.\u00a0 Once the inner core reorganizes, then a period of rapid intensification could occur.\u00a0 Nate could become a hurricane over the northwest Caribbean Sea or southern Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
An upper level low west of Florida will drift westward over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 The upper low and an upper level ridge east of Florida will combine to steer Tropical Storm Nate toward the north-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Nate will emerge over the northwestern Caribbean Sea on Friday.\u00a0 Nate could be near the Yucatan peninsula on Friday night and it could move into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.\u00a0 Nate could approach the northern Gulf Coast on Saturday night or Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nate is dropping heavy rain on parts of Nicaragua and Honduras.\u00a0 There is the potential for flooding in those areas.\u00a0 Nate is likely to be a hurricane when it approaches the Gulf Coast.\u00a0 It will be capable of causing wind damage, a storm surge and locally heavy rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Sixteen strengthened into Tropical Storm Nate and Nate made landfall on the coast of northeastern Nicaragua on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Nate was located at latitude 14.5\u00b0N and longitude 84.0\u00b0W which put it about 50 miles (80 km) south-southwest of Puerto Lempira, Honduras.\u00a0 Nate […]<\/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":[576,577,384,58,145,51,449,113,24,493,571,112,835,836,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"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=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}