Tropical Storm Erika 9-2
Position: 16.1 N 62.4 W [10 PM 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [270°] near 9 mph [15 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph [65 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [80 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 175 miles [280 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb.
It is 290 miles [470 km] East-Southeast of San Juan Puerto Rico.
A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for the islands of Dominica, St. Maarten, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Saba, St. Eustatius, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, and St. Barthelemy.
A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for Puerto Rico, and the US and British Virgin Islands.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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That is one weird-looking storm. Jeff Masters, at least, is not even pretending to know what it’s going to do next. All that human expertise and high-powered computing, and we still don’t know…
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It has been something of a slacker from the beginning. There is something going on in the atmosphere around this storm that disrupts it at random intervals. An old fashioned weather balloon launched from Guadeloupe showed a narrow jet stream that no one had picked up before, so there may be a wildcard in the deck.