Tropical Storm Beryl weakened on Saturday as it move closer to the Lesser Antilles.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of circulation was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 54.3\u00b0W which put it about 495 miles (795 km) east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles.\u00a0 Beryl was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (30 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1005 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for Dominica and Guadeloupe.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Watches were in effect for Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, Martinique, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, Barbados and St. Lucia.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Beryl moved into a region where the easterly winds in the lower level were stronger and the increased vertical wind shear started to blow the lower part of the circulation to the west of the upper part of Beryl.\u00a0 It also seemed to move into an area of drier air, which caused most of the stronger thunderstorms to weaken.\u00a0 There was still a well organized circulation in the lower levels, but it weakened on Saturday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of circulation and on the eastern side of Tropical Storm Beryl in recent hours.\u00a0 If those storms persist then Beryl could strengthen again, but if they dissipate quickly, then the tropical storm could weaken again on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Beryl will move through an environment that contains factors that are favorable for intensification and other factors that are unfavorable.\u00a0 Beryl will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through an area where the lower level winds are stronger and so there will be more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 There will be areas of moister air within a larger area of drier air.\u00a0 If the recently developed thunderstorms persist on Sunday, then the Beryl could strengthen again.\u00a0 However, if the storms dissipate in a few hours, then Tropical Storm Beryl could weaken further.\u00a0 The small size of the circulation means that rapid changes in intensity can occur.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Beryl was moving south of the subtropical high over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high was steering Beryl toward the west-northwest and that general motion is forecast to continue for the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Beryl could reach the Lesser Antilles on Sunday night.\u00a0 There is a lot of uncertainty about how strong Beryl may be when it reaches those islands.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the Atlantic Ocean Tropical Depression Three spun south of Cape Hatteras.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Depression Three was located at latitude 32.9\u00b0N and longitude 75.1\u00b0W which put it about 160 miles (260 km) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.\u00a0 It was nearly stationary.\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 1014 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Beryl weakened on Saturday as it move closer to the Lesser Antilles.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of circulation was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0N and longitude 54.3\u00b0W which put it about 495 miles (795 km) east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles.\u00a0 Beryl was moving toward the west-northwest at 18 m.p.h. (30 […]<\/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":[378,387,377,386,535,31,1067,537,51,98,1072,26,20,538,100,22,1075,99,1074,1076,536,1077,1073,1071,1066,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156"}],"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=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}