{"id":343371,"date":"2026-07-17T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:39:09","slug":"tropical-wave-near-florida-has-a-20-chance-of-developing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343371\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical wave near Florida has a 20% chance of developing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe National Hurricane Center is monitoring two possible areas for tropical development over the next seven days.The first disturbance is a tropical wave just off the coast of Africa that has a low-end chance of developing. The NHC has that chance at just 10% because conditions will not remain favorable for development for long. As this wave travels further into the Atlantic, it will encounter Saharan dust, which will make it very difficult for development at that point.  There is another spot to watch, this one closer to home. The NHC has given a small chance of development, 20%, to an area stretching from the northeastern Gulf to just off the coast of northern Florida. That is where we could see an area of low pressure develop this weekend and move northeastward toward the waters off the Southeast. It will be something to keep an eye on heading into next week. Tracking the tropicsStay with WPBF 25 on air and online for updates.Interactive radarSevere Weather Alerts Download the WPBF 25 News app for the most up-to-date weather alerts.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two possible areas for tropical development over the next seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The first disturbance is a tropical wave just off the coast of Africa that has a low-end chance of developing. The NHC has that chance at just 10% because conditions will not remain favorable for development for long. <\/p>\n<p>As this wave travels further into the Atlantic, it will encounter Saharan dust, which will make it very difficult for development at that point.  <\/p>\n<p>There is another spot to watch, this one closer to home. The NHC has given a small chance of development, 20%, to an area stretching from the northeastern Gulf to just off the coast of northern Florida. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"the national hurricane center is monitoring a tropical wave in the eastern tropical atlantic ocean off the coast of africa.\" title=\"The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c0d2040f-4123-4966-9845-9023264597ee.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"the national hurricane center is monitoring a tropical wave in the eastern tropical atlantic ocean off the coast of africa.\" title=\"Area of low pressure has chance of forming in the northeastern Gulf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e2ef7604-98c1-48d6-be53-14e72ad2414e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"the national hurricane center is monitoring a tropical wave in the eastern tropical atlantic ocean off the coast of africa.\" title=\"Tropical wave in Atlantic off coast of Africa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4ae44dfc-06e6-4b4d-ac43-0941723cbe8d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That is where we could see an area of low pressure develop this weekend and move northeastward toward the waters off the Southeast. <\/p>\n<p>It will be something to keep an eye on heading into next week. <\/p>\n<p>Tracking the tropics<\/p>\n<p>Stay with WPBF 25 on air and online for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/weather\/radar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interactive radar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/alerts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather Alerts <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-news-on-the-go\/44045247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPBF 25 News app<\/a> for the most up-to-date weather alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two possible areas for tropical development over the next seven days.The first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37442,2954,1282,8496,140835,28,30,29,21935,140833,5127,12872,140055,140834,5123,140836,25166,8485,9715,1455,133418,4103,1098,189],"class_list":["post-343371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-africa","tag-area","tag-chance","tag-coast","tag-first-disturbance","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-low-pressure","tag-low-end-chance","tag-news-app","tag-nhc","tag-northeastern-gulf","tag-northeastward","tag-on-air","tag-possible-area","tag-small-chance","tag-tropical-development","tag-tropical-wave","tag-tropics","tag-tropicsstay","tag-water","tag-weekend","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343371","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=343371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}