{"id":419077,"date":"2026-10-05T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419077\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:04:08","slug":"tracking-the-tropics-whats-that-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419077\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Tropics: What\u2019s that in the Gulf?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A surface trough of low pressure has developed near the coast of Mexico. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Environmental conditions are only marginally favorable right now, so development would likely be slow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Still, gradual organization is possible, and a tropical depression could form during the second half of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The system is expected to initially drift east before turning north, so the exact track and strength will depend on how it interacts with the stalled boundary, upper-level winds, and overall Gulf moisture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Formation chances are 10% through the next 48 hours and 50% through the next 7 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">For NE Florida and SE Georgia, there is no direct tropical threat at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">That said, we\u2019ll want to watch the Gulf closely because any development could influence our pattern later this week, especially with deeper moisture, higher rain chances, breezy onshore flow, elevated surf, rip currents, and possible coastal flooding concerns depending on the eventual track.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surface trough of low pressure has developed near the coast of Mexico. Environmental conditions are only marginally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1846,944,116,118,117,1455,221],"class_list":["post-419077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricanes","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-tropics","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419077","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=419077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}