Subtropical Storm Rebekah formed west of the Azores on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDY on Wednesday the center of Subtropical Storm Rebekah was located at latitude 38.3\u00b0N and longitude 40.7\u00b0W which put it about 745 miles (1195 km) west of the Azores.\u00a0 Rebekah was moving toward the east at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 987 mb.<\/p>\n
Subtropical Storm Rebekah formed in a manner very similar to the way Hurricane Pablo developed last week.\u00a0 A small center of circulation developed in the middle of a much larger, extratropical cyclone.\u00a0 Thunderstorms developed around the center of the small low pressure system.\u00a0 Even though the small low was over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 22\u00b0C, cold air in the upper troposphere generated enough instability to allow the thunderstorms to grow upward.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms developed and began to revolve around the small low pressure system, and the National Hurricane Center designated the system at Subtropical Storm Rebekah.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) from the center of Rebekah.<\/p>\n
Subtropical Storm Rebekah could strengthen during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Although Rebekah will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 22\u00b0C, colder air in the middle and upper troposphere will keep enough potential instability in the atmosphere to allow for the continued development of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Since Rebekah is at the center of the larger low pressure system, the vertical wind shear will be less.\u00a0 Subtropical storm Rebekah may intensify during the next day or so and it could make a transition to a tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Subtropical Storm Rebekah will move eastward along with the larger low pressure system that surrounds the much smaller subtropical storm.\u00a0 Southerly winds blowing around the eastern side of the larger low could push Rebekah toward the north at times.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Subtropical Storm Rebekah could approach the western Azores on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Subtropical Storm Rebekah formed west of the Azores on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDY on Wednesday the center of Subtropical Storm Rebekah was located at latitude 38.3\u00b0N and longitude 40.7\u00b0W which put it about 745 miles (1195 km) west of the Azores.\u00a0 Rebekah was moving toward the east at 13 m.p.h. (20 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[877,878,318,1789,1788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746"}],"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=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}