{"id":421191,"date":"2026-10-07T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421191\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:44:14","slug":"how-to-pronounce-isaias-as-florida-storm-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421191\/","title":{"rendered":"How to pronounce Isaias as Florida storm nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Danielle<\/p>\n

The name Isaias, a Spanish form of Isaiah, is traditionally pronounced “ee-sah-EE-ahs,” with the stress on the third syllable. <\/p>\n

It can be broken into syllables as “ee \u2022 sah \u2022 EE \u2022 ahs,” and Spanish speakers typically emphasize the third syllable. <\/p>\n

Variations such as “ee-SAY-us” or “eye-SAY-us” may also be heard, but “ee-sah-EE-ahs” is the traditional Spanish pronunciation. <\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Isaias, the ninth named storm of the season, formed Wednesday morning in the southwestern Gulf. It is expected to rapidly strengthen over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n

As of the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, the storm was located about 285 miles west of Progreso, Mexico<\/a>, and about 580 miles southwest of the Mouth of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

Isaias was moving east-northeast at 8 mph with 40-mph maximum sustained winds.<\/p>\n

Florida has declared a state of emergency in 25 counties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isaias will likely become the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season.<\/p>\n

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Download the WPBF 25 News app<\/a> for the most up-to-date weather alerts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name Isaias, a Spanish form of Isaiah, is traditionally pronounced “ee-sah-EE-ahs,” with the stress on the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123364,166263,120073,132963,74581,7903,166261,704,166198,28,166256,30,29,166259,532,166252,12524,166250,26763,166170,166253,29314,2340,141961,60236,49966,166258,2343,9712,5127,5123,166257,166251,166262,164676,165927,914,18522,145694,166260,166255,13715,561,166171,166254,120624,1455,19127,64417,154976,2486,1268,189,97868],"class_list":["post-421191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-2026-atlantic-hurricane-season","tag-ahs","tag-atlantic-hurricane","tag-atlantic-season","tag-computer-models","tag-county","tag-ee-sah-ee-ah","tag-emergency","tag-first-hurricane","tag-florida","tag-florida-emergency","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-storm","tag-florida-weather","tag-gulf-storm","tag-hurricane-forecast","tag-hurricane-isaias","tag-interactive-radar","tag-isaias","tag-isaias-forecast","tag-map","tag-mile","tag-mississippi-river","tag-model","tag-most-up-to-date-weather-alert","tag-mouth-of-the-mississippi-river","tag-mph","tag-national-hurricane-center","tag-news-app","tag-on-air","tag-progreso-mexico","tag-rapid-strengthening","tag-sah-ee","tag-severe-weather-alerts","tag-southwestern-gulf","tag-state","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-storm-tracking","tag-third-syllable","tag-tracking-isaias","tag-tracking-the-tropics","tag-tropical-storm","tag-tropical-storm-isaias","tag-tropical-storm-isaias-forecast","tag-tropical-weather","tag-tropics","tag-update","tag-weather-alerts","tag-weather-maps","tag-wednesday","tag-wind","tag-wpbf","tag-wpbf-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421191","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=421191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}