{"id":379533,"date":"2026-07-20T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379533\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:56:19","slug":"tropical-depression-2-impacts-gulf-coast-likely-to-become-named-storm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379533\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical depression 2 impacts Gulf Coast, likely to become named storm today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Depression 2 remains weak and disorganized on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tropical Satellite\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/92e5753b-62e5-4703-8830-be4f292de94a-TropicalSatellite.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Top winds remain near 35 mph with a slow drift toward the NW at 3 mph.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tropical depression 2 stats and track\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3c35d941-fd8c-4617-b0b7-ed897923eb04-Tropicaldepression2statsandtrack.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tropical depression 2 stats and track<\/p>\n<p>Tropical depression 2 is expected to gain some strength and become the season&#8217;s second named storm today.  The Gulf Coast, from the Western Florida panhandle to Texas, will get lashed with wind and rain between now and the end of the week. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"2026 Storm names\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f90ba8da-73c2-4615-8ffc-06897380a3a3-2026Stormnames.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tropical storm watches are currently in effect for portions of the Florida Panhandle<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tropical alerts.png\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a4a8d2cc-9b61-4218-a79e-1906d7dac63e-Tropicalalerts.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The biggest impact from the soon-to-be Bertha will be locally heavy rainfall along its path.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Hour by Hour\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fec1edc1-567c-434e-a605-22bdecbf64f9-HourbyHour.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the heaviest rainfall is expected offshore. However, widespread 2-4&#8243; totals are possible along much of the Gulf Coast through this week.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rainfall to come\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b12f26bb-44be-4d46-ac22-4dbd617c8ebf-Rainfalltocome.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A storm surge of 1-3 feet is likely near its path, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Depression 2 remains weak and disorganized on Monday morning. Top winds remain near 35 mph with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-379533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379533","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=379533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}