Tropical Storm Arthur brought wind and rain to eastern North Carolina on Monday.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Arthur was located at latitude 34.5\u00b0N and longitude 75.9\u00b0W which put it about 50 miles (80 km) south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.\u00a0 Arthur was moving toward the north-northeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 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 1001 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Surf City to Duck, North Carolina including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Arthur began to move more quickly toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Monday morning.\u00a0 The distribution of thunderstorms and winds around Arthur was asymmetric.\u00a0 The strong thunderstorms were occurring in bands in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The strongest winds were occurring in those bands.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of Tropical Storm Arthur consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) in the eastern half of Arthur.\u00a0 The winds in the western half of Arthur were mostly less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
The asymmetric structure of Tropical Storm Arthur meant that the strongest winds were occurring east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.\u00a0 A buoy at Diamond Shoals was reporting a sustained wind speed of 33 m.p.h. (54 km\/h) and wind gusts to 47 m.p.h. (76 km\/h).\u00a0 The wind speeds along the coast of North Carolina were much weaker.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Arthur was dropping moderate rain over eastern North Carolina. \u00a0 Wind blowing water toward the coast was causing the water level to rise in some locations.\u00a0 Waves were causing erosion on some beaches.<\/p>\n
A large upper level trough will approach Tropical Storm Arthur from the west.\u00a0 The trough will turn Arthur more toward the east later on Monday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Arthur should move away from North Carolina on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 Weather conditions should improve gradually when Arthur moves farther form the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Arthur brought wind and rain to eastern North Carolina on Monday.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Arthur was located at latitude 34.5\u00b0N and longitude 75.9\u00b0W which put it about 50 miles (80 km) south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.\u00a0 Arthur was moving toward the north-northeast at 15 […]<\/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":[316,317,1247,2020,1083,2021,1250,100,825,1246,2015,2019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526"}],"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=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9527,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions\/9527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}