Tropical Update

by Bryan

Position: 16.6 N 52.9 W. [4AM CDT]
Movement: West-Northwest [300°] near 9 mph.
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph.
Wind Gusts: 50 mph.
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 175 miles.
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb.

Currently 590 miles East of the Leeward Islands [the upper islands of the Lesser Antilles].

Tropical Storm Melissa
Position: 14.1 N 27.4 W. [4AM CDT]
Movement: West [270°] near 3 mph.
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph.
Wind Gusts: 50 mph.
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 70 miles.
Minimum central pressure: 1005 mb.

The former tropical depression 14 is about 260 miles West-Southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

Both storms are seriously constrained by wind shear. Karen is becoming a very big storm, but wind shear is preventing it from spinning up, and may tear it apart.

Quotes

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

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Heinrich Heine

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John Rogers

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Sir Terry Pratchett

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