Former Subtropical Storm Ernesto made a transition to a tropical storm on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Ernesto was located at latitude 43.0\u00b0N and longitude 41.0\u00b0W which put it about 645 miles (1035 km) east-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.\u00a0 Ernesto was moving toward the northeast 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 1007 mb.<\/p>\n
Even though now Tropical Storm Ernesto moved over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was between 24\u00b0C and 25\u00b0C, there was enough energy in the upper ocean to cause more thunderstorms to develop.\u00a0 In addition, many of the thunderstorms developed close to the center of circulation.\u00a0 The inner bands of showers and thunderstorms became stronger and the bands in the outer parts of the circulation weakened.\u00a0 Ernesto exhibited a structure like a tropical cyclone and the National Hurricane Center classified the system as a tropical storm in the 5:00 p.m. EDT advisory.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Ernesto will move over much cooler water during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 It is likely to make a transition to an extratropical cyclone when it moves over the cooler water.\u00a0 Ernesto could strengthen when colder air is pulled into the western half of the circulation and a cold front forms south of the center.\u00a0 The development of the cold front and upper level divergence could strengthen the pressure gradient force which would give the air a stronger push.\u00a0 An upper level trough east of the U.S. is forecast to steer Ernesto in the general direction of Ireland and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Subtropical Storm Ernesto made a transition to a tropical storm on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Ernesto was located at latitude 43.0\u00b0N and longitude 41.0\u00b0W which put it about 645 miles (1035 km) east-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.\u00a0 Ernesto was moving toward the northeast at 18 […]<\/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":[446,447,1155,849,1154,845,169,847,322,1164,274,848],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403"}],"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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}