{"id":8135,"date":"2016-08-26T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2016-08-26T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T01:07:33","slug":"whats-up-with-99l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/whats-up-with-99l\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up with 99L?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation 99L has confounded forecasters&#8217; attempts to figure out when, where and even if it is going to develop into a tropical storm, much less where it might be going. \u00a0Originally hurricane forecasts predicted that it would organize into a tropical depression and storm and then cross southern Florida. \u00a0But the storm development has been hampered both by strong wind shear aloft, which has kept convection from getting going, and the mountains of Hispaniola, which has broken apart the bottom circulation of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>The National Hurricane Center is still giving it a 50%\u00a0chance of developing into a tropical storm, but have lowered the chances from earlier this week. \u00a0No matter if it develops or not, the wave is still likely to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to southern Florida. \u00a0After that, who know? \u00a0Jeff Masters of Weather Underground describes the likely scenario and what could happen in his blog tonight at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/waitandsee-drama-with-99l-will-continue-for-up-to-another-week\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/waitandsee-drama-with-99l-will-continue-for-up-to-another-week<\/a>. \u00a0AccuWeather also has a good discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/downpours-to-soak-florida-bahamas-cuba-as-an-atlantic-tropical-disturbance-may-wait-to-strengthen-tropical-depression-8-storm-hermine\/59705521\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Meanwhile two other areas of low pressure have a small chance (20%) of developing in the next five days. \u00a0The western one could bring more rain to Texas and Louisiana over the next few days. \u00a0Stay tuned, y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/two_atl_5d0-8-26-2016-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8136\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/two_atl_5d0-8-26-2016-pm-300x222.png\" alt=\"two_atl_5d0 8-26-2016 pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/two_atl_5d0-8-26-2016-pm-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/two_atl_5d0-8-26-2016-pm-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/two_atl_5d0-8-26-2016-pm-187x138.png 187w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/two_atl_5d0-8-26-2016-pm.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation 99L has confounded forecasters&#8217; attempts to figure out when, where and even if it is going to develop into a tropical storm, much less where it might be going. \u00a0Originally hurricane forecasts predicted that it would organize into a tropical depression and storm and then cross southern Florida. \u00a0But the storm development has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-outlooks","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}