{"id":336964,"date":"2026-06-15T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/336964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:54:10","slug":"tropics-watching-an-area-for-potential-development-near-texas-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/336964\/","title":{"rendered":"TROPICS: Watching an area for potential development near Texas coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching an area of low pressure located near Northeastern Mexico that continues to produce disorganized, thunderstorm activity. <\/p>\n<p>The low is forecast to drift north over southern Texas before re-emerging in the golf late Tuesday or Wednesday where conditions may support tropical development around midweek. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, heavy rainfall, flash flooding, and gusty winds are possible across southeastern Texas through the Louisiana coast this week.<\/p>\n<p>TRACKING THE TROPICS: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/hurricane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hurricane Center<\/a> | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/weather\/hurricane\/hurricane-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hurricane Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tropical formation chances in the next 48 hours are 20%<\/p>\n<p>Tropical formation chances in the next 7 days are 30%<\/p>\n<p>The first named storm of the season will be Arthur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching an area of low pressure located near Northeastern Mexico that continues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,120229,120230,16221,120228],"class_list":["post-336964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tracking-the-tropics","tag-tropical-forecast","tag-tropical-weather","tag-wptv-first-alert-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}