{"id":7240,"date":"2016-06-02T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2016-06-02T16:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:17:49","slug":"could-tropical-storm-colin-hit-florida-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/could-tropical-storm-colin-hit-florida-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Tropical Storm Colin hit Florida next week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early indications in long-term weather forecast models indicate that there is a pretty good chance of a tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico early next week and moving across the Florida panhandle by Tuesday. \u00a0If this system does develop and reach tropical storm strength, it would be called Colin. \u00a0Since it is almost a week out, forecasts are going to change and the storm could not develop at all or at least not reach tropical storm level, but if you have vacation or work in peninsular Florida next week, you are going to want to keep an eye on the forecasts to see the latest updates.<\/p>\n<p>The latest outlook from the National Hurricane Center gives it a 40 percent chance of development within five days. \u00a0It is interesting to note that this is right where you would expect development to occur based on climatology. \u00a0You can follow along on the latest forecast thoughts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaghettimodels.com\">https:\/\/www.spaghettimodels.com<\/a> but keep in mind the limitations of a steady diet of &#8220;spaghetti&#8221; as described by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA in his <em>Forbes.com<\/em> blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/05\/27\/be-careful-with-your-diet-of-spaghetti-plots-this-hurricane-season\/#2c9387395555\">post<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a lot more about this on the WunderBlog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/tropical-disturbance-florida-heavy-rain-jun2016#prclt-4icQ1Bm0\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/tropical-disturbance-florida-heavy-rain-jun2016#prclt-4icQ1Bm0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/6-2-2016-two_atl_5d0-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7242\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/6-2-2016-two_atl_5d0-1-300x222.png\" alt=\"6-2-2016 two_atl_5d0 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/6-2-2016-two_atl_5d0-1-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/6-2-2016-two_atl_5d0-1-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/6-2-2016-two_atl_5d0-1-187x138.png 187w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/6-2-2016-two_atl_5d0-1.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/june-hurricane-climo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7241\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/june-hurricane-climo-300x151.gif\" alt=\"june hurricane climo\" width=\"399\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/june-hurricane-climo-300x151.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/june-hurricane-climo-274x138.gif 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early indications in long-term weather forecast models indicate that there is a pretty good chance of a tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico early next week and moving across the Florida panhandle by Tuesday. \u00a0If this system does develop and reach tropical storm strength, it would be called Colin. \u00a0Since it is almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7267,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/7267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}