Tropical Storm Gordon 8-16-2012
Tropical Storm Gordon is currently about 585 miles East of Bermuda and is heading NNE at 14mph. This puts the storm heading our into open waters of the North Atlantic over the next couple days. At this time the only possible threat is to people in Azores and this area is encouraged to monitor the progress of the storm.
While Gordon only has maximum sustained winds of about 40mph at this time and is considered a small cyclone with tropical storm force winds reaching out about 25 miles. It is expected that Gordon will increase in strength and could become a hurricane over the weekend.
August 16th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
As of the 5pm AST advisory Tropical Storm Gordon has picked up to winds of 65 mph with tropical storm force winds reaching out about 60 miles from the center of the cyclone. It is still expected that Gordon could become a hurricane by Friday.