Tropical Depression Eight formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday night and a Tropical Storm Watch was issued for the coast of Texas.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression Eight was located at latitude 25.9\u00b0N and longitude 88.2\u00b0W which put it about 530 miles (855 km) east-southeast of Port Oconnor, Texas.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the west-northwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 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 1009 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Watch was issued for the portion of the coast of Texas from Port Mansfield to High Island.<\/span><\/p>\n More thunderstorms formed near the center of a low pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday night and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Eight.\u00a0 The thunderstorms were forming in bands in the northern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the southern half of the depression consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.<\/p>\n Tropical Depression Eight will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 The depression will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level low over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico will produce southerly winds which will blow toward the top of the depression.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Eight is likely to strengthen into a tropical storm during the next 36 hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Depression Eight will move south of a subtropical high pressure system that extends from the western Atlantic Ocean across the southern U.S.\u00a0 The high will steer the depression toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Depression Eight could approach the coast of Texas on Friday night.\u00a0 It is likely to be a tropical storm when it approaches the coast.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Gonzalo strengthened as it moved toward the Windward Islands and a Hurricane Watch was issued for Barbados.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Gonzalo was located at latitude 9.9\u00b0N and longitude 45.9\u00b0W which put it about 1045 miles (1685 km) east of the southern Windward Islands.\u00a0 Gonzalo was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 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. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Depression Eight formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday night and a Tropical Storm Watch was issued for the coast of Texas.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Depression Eight was located at latitude 25.9\u00b0N and longitude 88.2\u00b0W which put it about 530 miles (855 km) east-southeast of Port […]<\/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":[483,172,160,171,535,2082,112,489,2081,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841"}],"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=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}