{"id":13853,"date":"2025-10-21T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13853\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:38:13","slug":"tropical-storm-melissa-likely-to-form-in-caribbean-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13853\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Melissa likely to form in Caribbean on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/90BC293271368426D61D309CBFB6489E.jpg\" alt=\"Tampa Weather | Tuesday morning forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; The 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/weather\/hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hurricane<\/a> season will likely form on Tuesday as Invest 98L becomes better organized, according to the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">As of Tuesday morning, Invest 98L had winds of 45 miles per hour, but it still lacked a defined center of circulation.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-10-21-07h05m28s918.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">However, FOX 13 Meteorologist Valerie Mills expects it to become Tropical Storm Melissa on Tuesday as it spins over warm waters.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/applications-open-pinellas-people-first-hurricane-recovery-programs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Applications open for Pinellas People First hurricane recovery programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">She said Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola will likely feel its effects in terms of high surf, wind, and rain.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/invest-98l-tuesday-models.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Mills said Tropical Storm Melissa will move toward the north and east, sparing Florida and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information from FOX 13 Meteorologist Valerie Mills forecast, FOX Weather and the National Hurricane Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/weather\/hurricanes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricanes<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; The 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will likely form on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[944,115,135,137,136,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-13853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-hurricanes","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news","13":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}