Former Tropical Depression Seven strengthened into Tropical Storm Gonzalo on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m.\u00a0 EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Gonzalo was located at latitude 9.9\u00b0N and longitude 43.6\u00b0W which put it about 1205 miles (1935 km) east of the southern Windward Islands.\u00a0 Gonzalo was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. (22 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 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around former Tropical Depression Seven exhibited much better organization on Wednesday morning and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Gonzalo.\u00a0 A band of thunderstorms curved around the southern and eastern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The inner end of the band appeared to be wrapping farther around the center and visible satellite images suggested that an eye could be forming.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Gonzalo.\u00a0 Storms near the center were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Storm Gonzalo was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gonzalo will move through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Gonzalo will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical\u00a0 wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Gonzalo is likely to intensify and it could strengthen into a hurricane during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 Small tropical cyclones like Gonzalo can change intensity rapidly if they move into a different type of environment.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gonzalo will move south of the subtropical high pressure system over the North Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Gonzalo toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Gonzalo could approach the Windward Islands on Saturday.\u00a0 Watches could be issued for some of those islands when Gonzalo moves closer.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, more thunderstorms were developing around a low pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico that is currently designated as Invest 91L.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Invest 91L was located at latitude 25.7\u00b0N and longitude 87.9\u00b0W which put it about 645 miles (1040 km) east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas.\u00a0 The low pressure system was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 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 1011 mb.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center was indicating the probability was 50% that the low pressure system would develop into a tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Depression Seven strengthened into Tropical Storm Gonzalo on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m.\u00a0 EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Gonzalo was located at latitude 9.9\u00b0N and longitude 43.6\u00b0W which put it about 1205 miles (1935 km) east of the southern Windward Islands.\u00a0 Gonzalo was moving toward the west at 14 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[483,160,2082,2081,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835"}],"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=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}