Unusual Tropical Depression Alberto reached southern Michigan on Wednesday as it continued its northward journey from the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression Alberto was located at latitude 42.4\u00b0N and longitude 85.3\u00b0W which put it about 45 miles southwest of Lansing, Michigan.\u00a0 Alberto was moving toward the north-northeast at 26 m.p.h. (43 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Depression Alberto remained intact even though it had been over land for more than two days.\u00a0 There was a distinct low level center of circulation.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms in the core of the circulation were generating upper level divergence.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Alberto looked like a tropical cyclone on both satellite and radar imagery.<\/p>\n
Gusty winds in some of the bands of showers and thunderstorms caused damage to trees and power lines in Indiana and Ohio.\u00a0 Most of the damage was minor.\u00a0 The peripheral parts of the circulation of Tropical Depression Alberto interacted with other weather system to produce bands of heavier rain over parts of the southeastern U.S.\u00a0 The heavy rain contributed to flooding in several states.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Alberto will move northeast across the Great Lakes and into Canada on Thursday.\u00a0 The broader circulation around Alberto will again interact with other weather systems to produce bands of heavier rain.\u00a0 The potential flooding will exist in several states in the southeastern U.S. and Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unusual Tropical Depression Alberto reached southern Michigan on Wednesday as it continued its northward journey from the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression Alberto was located at latitude 42.4\u00b0N and longitude 85.3\u00b0W which put it about 45 miles southwest of Lansing, Michigan.\u00a0 Alberto was moving toward 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":[316,317,384,98,1021,121,120,118,1022,493,100,119,1023,99,117,1019,213,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947"}],"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=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}