Tropical Depression Two formed east of the Lesser Antilles on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Depression Two was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0N and longitude 41.4\u00b0W which put it about 1385 miles (2230 km) east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1009 mb.<\/p>\n
A distinct area of low pressure developed in the northern end of a tropical wave on Thursday and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Two.\u00a0 The circulation of the depression was quite small.\u00a0 Several short bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center were beginning to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the depression.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Two will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 26.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, there is cooler water to the north of the anticipated track and the depression will not intensify if it moves over the cooler water.\u00a0 An upper level ridge north of the tropical depression will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The wind speeds will be similar at all levels and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Two is forecast to strengthen into a tropical storm during the next day or two.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Two was moving around the southern side of the subtropical ridge over the Atlantic Ocean and the ridge was steering the depression toward the west.\u00a0 The ridge is forecast to steer the depression toward the west-northwest during the next two or three days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Depression Two could be east of the Lesser Antilles on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Two formed east of the Lesser Antilles on Thursday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Depression Two was located at latitude 10.2\u00b0N and longitude 41.4\u00b0W which put it about 1385 miles (2230 km) east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 […]<\/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":[378,377,661,20,1065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131"}],"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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}