ORLANDO, Fla. – A non-tropical area of low pressure has taken on enough tropical characteristics to become Subtropical storm Karen.
A subtropical storm is a hybrid storm that contains both tropical and non-tropical characteristics.
A tropical system gets it strength from warm ocean temperatures whereas a non-tropical system strengthens by differences and temperature and pressure in the atmosphere.
Karen is producing thunderstorms around its center, tropical characteristics, but also has fronts attached to it making it not fully tropical. Karen
Karen has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and is moving NE at 9 mph through the extreme North Atlantic.
Meanwhile Jerry remains a disorganized tropical storm near the Leeward islands.
As of 11 p.m. Jerry had maximum sustained winds of 65 mp