Tropical Storm Florence reorganized southeast of Bermuda on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Florence was located at latitude 24.6\u00b0N and longitude 55.2\u00b0W which put it about 790 miles (1270 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Florence was moving toward the west at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Vertical wind shear decreased around Tropical Storm Florence and the circulation showed evidence of better organization.\u00a0 Stronger thunderstorms developed near the center of circulation and a primary rainband wrapped about three quarters of the way around the center.\u00a0 An eye appeared to be forming.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center generated more upper level divergence which pumped away mass and the surface pressure decreased on Saturday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms also developed in other rainbands that were revolving around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Florence appeared to be on the threshold of regaining hurricane intensity.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Florence will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification during the next two or three days.\u00a0 Florence will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move into a region where the upper level winds are weaker and there will be less vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Florence will intensify back into a hurricane on Sunday.\u00a0 It could intensify rapidly once a eye and complete eyewall form.\u00a0 Florence is likely to become a major hurricane by early next week.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Florence will move near the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Florence in a general west-northwesterly direction during the next few days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Florence could approach the southeast coast of the U.S. by Thursday.\u00a0 It is likely to be a major hurricane at that time.\u00a0 The steering currents could weaken when Florence approaches the U.S. and it is too early to make a precise forecast of landfall.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Tropical Storms Helene and Isaac strengthened over the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Helene was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0N and longitude 22.8\u00b0W which put it about 155 miles (250 km) southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands.\u00a0 Helene was moving toward the west at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for Santiago, Fogo and Brava.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT the center of Tropical Storm Isaac was located at latitude 14.4\u00b0N and longitude 37.5\u00b0W which put it about 1580 miles (2540 km) east of the Windward Islands.\u00a0 Isaac was moving toward the west at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Florence reorganized southeast of Bermuda on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Florence was located at latitude 24.6\u00b0N and longitude 55.2\u00b0W which put it about 790 miles (1270 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Florence was moving toward the west at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/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":[154,172,491,156,171,492,31,760,505,497,1209,51,98,1232,1234,496,507,123,206,100,506,99,1208,1231,1233,213,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589"}],"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=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}