Thread: Invest 94L -Cent. Carib.

recon enroute

Recon has reached the Caribbean, and is now in the northern edge of the disturbance, where they are finding lower end gale force winds.

The Strong Tropical Wave Over The Northwestern Caribbean Sea
Continues To Produce Numerous Showers And Thunderstorms With Winds
To Gale Force In Squalls. Environmental Conditions Are Expected To
Become Increasingly Favorable For Development...and This System
Appears Likely To Become A Tropical Depression Or A Tropical Storm
Within The Next Couple Of Days As It Moves West-northwestward At 15
To 20 Mph Toward The Southern Gulf Of Mexico. An Air Force
Reconnaissance Aircraft Is Scheduled To Investigate This System
Later Today. Regardless Of Development... Locally Heavy Rains Will
Affect Portions Of Western Cuba And The Cayman Islands Today...and
The Yucatan Peninsula Tonight And Monday. Interests In The
Northwestern Caribbean Sea And The Yucatan Peninsula Should
Continue To Monitor The Progress Of This System.

Recon still linvestigating.

They have found winds of TS strength in places.
They now seem to be trying to confirm if there is a closed center or not . . . and where. IF there is a closed one, it may be farther north than thought, and that would be significant, in terms of future track.
They did find pressure as low as 1004 mb.

TS Dolly at 11 am new thread started