The potential strengthening of Potential Tropical Cyclone Six caused the government of the Cabo Verde Islands to issue Tropical Storm Warnings for some of the southern islands on Thursday.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings were issued to Santiago, Fogo and Brava.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Potential Tropical Cyclone Six was located at latitude 12.9\u00b0N and longitude 19.4\u00b0W which put it about 360 miles (580 km) east-southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 1007 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of of Potential Tropical Cyclone Six was still organizing.\u00a0 There was a broad area of low pressure, but there was not a well defined center of circulation.\u00a0 Numerous bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the circulation of the broad low.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms were in the outer part of the circulation.\u00a0 Since there were few thunderstorm in the inner portion of the circulation, it had not started to generate upper level divergence.<\/p>\n
Potential Tropical Cyclone Six will be moving through an area favorable for intensification.\u00a0 It will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Potential Tropical Cyclone Six is forecast to become a tropical depression during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 It could strengthen into a tropical storm on Friday and it could intensify into a hurricane during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Potential Tropical Cyclone Six will move south of a subtropical ridge over the eastern Atlantic Ocean during the next few days.\u00a0 The ridge will steer the system toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Potential Tropical Cyclone Six will pass near the southern Cabo Verde Islands on Friday, which is why the Tropical Storm Warning was issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The potential strengthening of Potential Tropical Cyclone Six caused the government of the Cabo Verde Islands to issue Tropical Storm Warnings for some of the southern islands on Thursday.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings were issued to Santiago, Fogo and Brava.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Potential Tropical Cyclone Six was located at […]<\/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":[154,156,1207,1204,1206,1203,1205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510"}],"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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}