{"id":345887,"date":"2026-07-20T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:39:11","slug":"tropical-depression-2-forecast-to-strengthen-into-tropical-storm-threatens-florida-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345887\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Depression 2 forecast to strengthen into tropical storm; threatens Florida Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 7:07 AM<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Depression 2 is forecast strengthen into a tropical storm on Monday before threatening Florida\u2019s Panhandle.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PEMBROKE PARK, Fla.  \u2014 Tropical Depression 2 is forecast strengthen into a tropical storm on Monday before threatening Florida\u2019s Panhandle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">South Florida will have no direct impacts from the system this week, though drier air is forecast to filter in behind it midweek. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This lower storm chance will keep temperatures above normal, with heat index values approaching Heat Advisory criteria each afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Monday morning, Tropical Depression 2 was located about 120 miles south of Panama City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was moving northwest at 3 mph with maximum winds of 35 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for the Alabama Gulf coast from the Florida border to the Mississippi border.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jennifer Collins\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/DQAAGWJMSNC57FRYCRFK7TFG.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jennifer Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Meteorologist Jennifer Collins joined the Local 10 team in June 2026. You can catch her forecasts Saturday and Sunday mornings. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 7:07 AM Tropical Depression 2 is forecast strengthen into a tropical storm on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-345887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345887","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=345887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}