{"id":48688,"date":"2024-08-09T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=48688"},"modified":"2024-08-09T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:13:46","slug":"tropical-depression-or-tropical-storm-ernesto-could-form-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/08\/09\/tropical-depression-or-tropical-storm-ernesto-could-form-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical depression or Tropical Storm Ernesto could form next week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Hurricane Center has increased the odds of development for a tropical wave brewing in the Atlantic that could become the next named storm of the 2024 hurricane season. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"62676f\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #62676f;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"942\" height=\"357\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58-15.png?resize=942%2C357&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48689 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58-15.png?w=942&amp;ssl=1 942w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58-15.png?resize=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58-15.png?resize=768%2C291&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tropical wave is located over the tropical Atlantic several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. It&#8217;s currently producing widespread disorganized showers and thunderstorms, the NHC said in its Friday morning advisory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the tropical wave moves westward across the central tropical Atlantic, environmental conditions are expected to become more favorable for development. A tropical depression could form by early next week as the disturbance approaches the Lesser Antilles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"426d84\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #426d84;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"956\" height=\"384\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58a-3.png?resize=956%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48690 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58a-3.png?w=956&amp;ssl=1 956w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58a-3.png?resize=300%2C121&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58a-3.png?resize=768%2C308&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disturbance could then approach the Greater Antilles by mid-next week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NHC has given this tropical wave a 60% chance of development. This disturbance will likely become the next named storm, Ernesto, next week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re tracking a system in the Atlantic that is likely to become Ernesto next week and threaten the Leewards as what could be a hurricane. There is potential for rapid intensification due to hot water. It&#8217;s too soon to forecast if it&#8217;ll impact Florida, or curve away into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hurricane Center has increased the odds of development for a tropical wave brewing in the Atlantic that could become the next named storm of the 2024 hurricane season.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"694","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":48689,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-58-15.png","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[694],"tags":[9392],"class_list":["post-48688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-by-o","tag-tropical-depression-or-tropical-storm-ernesto-could-form-next-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48691,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions\/48691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}