Tropical Depression Three formed east of Florida on Monday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of a small low pressure system over the Northwestern Bahamas on Monday afternoon and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) designated the system as Tropical Depression Three.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Three was located at latitude 25.6\u00b0N and longitude 78.6\u00b0W which put it about 120 miles (195 km) southeast of West Palm Beach, Florida.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 1013 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms developed around the center of a small low pressure system that was embedded in the northern end of a tropical wave over the Bahamas on Monday.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms were forming in bands on the eastern side of the circulation.\u00a0 Based on data from satellites NHC determined that a closed circulation had formed at the surface.\u00a0 There were fewer thunderstorms in the western half of the circulation.\u00a0 Storms in the eastern half of the depression were exhibiting upper level divergence to the north and east.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Three will move through an environment somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 The depression will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will be in under the western side of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge could enhance upper level divergence on Tuesday.\u00a0 The wind aloft will be relatively weak, although a thin upper trough near the east coast of the U.S. will produce southwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 The surface pressure is relatively high and that could slow any intensification.\u00a0 A larger upper level trough will develop over the eastern U.S. on Tuesday and the trough will produce stronger southwesterly winds.\u00a0 Those winds will create much more shear on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Three will move around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer the depression toward the northwest during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Three is likely to more more toward the north later on Tuesday when it reaches the western end of the ridge.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Depression Three could be near the southeast coast of Florida in about 12 hours.\u00a0 The center is not currently forecast to make landfall, but the depression could bring squally weather and an increased chance for rain to the southeast coast of the U.S. during the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Three formed east of Florida on Monday.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of a small low pressure system over the Northwestern Bahamas on Monday afternoon and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) designated the system as Tropical Depression Three.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Three was located […]<\/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":[387,386,28,51,98,100,99,1071,1549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965"}],"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=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}