{"id":8210,"date":"2025-10-17T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8210\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:19:14","slug":"storms-swirling-in-atlantic-show-signs-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8210\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms swirling in Atlantic show signs of development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7D46266B509ADD4D18471D3E70829E05.jpg\" alt=\"Tampa Weather | Friday morning forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; There\u2019s a little more than a month left in the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/weather\/hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hurricane<\/a> season and the tropics are still active.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance moving across the Atlantic Ocean for potential tropical development. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">FOX 13 Meteorologist Valerie Mills says the wave has a 30% chance of developing over the next week.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It is expected to continue moving west and by the weekend, it will bring wind and rain to portions of the Windward Islands.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/applications-open-millions-hurricane-recovery-funds-pinellas-residents-next-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Applications open for millions in hurricane recovery funds for Pinellas residents next week<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Mills says she will be watching for the wave to show signs of tropical development as the wave moves into the Caribbean, where warm waters provide a conducive environment for development.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">If it does develop into a tropical storm or hurricane, it\u2019ll be named Melissa.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The National Hurricane Center also identified an area to watch for development in the North Atlantic late Thursday evening. This area is a non-tropical area of low pressure several hundred miles off the Northeast coast that the Hurricane Center said may take on some tropical characteristics in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Regardless of development, this system is expected to head out to sea and has a low chance of development.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The official end of the Atlantic Hurricane season is Nov. 30.\u00a0<\/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; There\u2019s a little more than a month left in the 2025 hurricane season and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[944,115,135,137,136,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-8210","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\/8210","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=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}