{"id":37300,"date":"2018-09-03T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37300"},"modified":"2018-09-03T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:28:38","slug":"tropical-cyclone-threatens-south-florida-takes-aim-at-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37300","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Threatens South Florida, Takes Aim At Gulf Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-03\/tropical-cyclone-threatens-south-florida-takes-aim-gulf-coast\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Tropical Cyclone Threatens South Florida, Takes Aim At Gulf Coast<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1208\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1208\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em>\u201cTropical Storm Gordon formed over the Florida Keys Monday morning and is poised to bring very heavy rainfall to south Florida on this Labor Day. As Gordon pushes into the Gulf of Mexico this week, it will interact with anomalously warm waters as it churns toward the Gulf Coast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-09-03_12-00-37.jpg?itok=O9rhoUqr\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-09-03_12-00-37.jpg?itok=O9rhoUqr\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-09-03_12-00-37.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2018-09-03_12-00-37.jpg?itok=O9rhoUqr 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c338ddb6-701d-48de-ae2c-63040618e6f0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All things considered, the track of Gordon is fairly high confidence, tracking toward the central Gulf Coast this week. Folks from eastern TX to FL should have a plan in place, regardless of intensity (Source\/\u00a0@EdValleeWx)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While Gordon will have limited time to rapidly strengthen and will have less than ideal conditions to do so, it still warrants attention for its impacts. Heavy rains, minor storm surge, and gusty winds are all but certain as this system approaches the central Gulf Coast Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday night, regardless of classification.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DmLs3n8U8AMJ1gY.jpg?itok=yAi0l_AL\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DmLs3n8U8AMJ1gY.jpg?itok=yAi0l_AL\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/DmLs3n8U8AMJ1gY.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/DmLs3n8U8AMJ1gY.jpg?itok=yAi0l_AL 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2a299a67-0050-445f-b644-9ae3e34af2ad\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>European\u00a0EPS illustrating the flooding risk with Gordon and the stalled frontal boundary nearby. 80-90 percent chance of 5\u2033+ rain next 10 days (Source\/\u00a0@EdValleeWx)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because of these risks, tropical storm warnings and hurricane watches have been issued for portions of the central Gulf Coast as of midday Monday. Upon landfall, this system may track northeastward into the ag belt, prompting more heavy rains in portions of the Midwest and Ohio Valley late this week into next weekend,<\/em>\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdValleeWx\">meteorologist Ed Vallee of Vallee Weather Consulting.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, Tropical Storm Gordon is advancing into the Gulf of Mexico as it continues to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to South Florida. The tropical cyclone is moving west-northwest at 16 miles per hour with sustained winds around 45 miles per hour.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2018-09-03-tropical-storm-gordon-forecast-florida-gulf-coast\">The Weather Channel<\/a>\u00a0reports that Gordon will head for the northern Gulf Coast landfall on Tuesday as a possible Category 1 hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Threatens South Florida, Takes Aim At Gulf Coast \u201cTropical Storm Gordon formed over the Florida Keys Monday morning and is poised to bring very heavy rainfall to south Florida on this Labor Day. As Gordon pushes into the Gulf of Mexico this week, it will interact with anomalously warm waters as it churns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18805,940,15940,21506,4318],"class_list":["post-37300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cyclone","tag-florida","tag-south-florida","tag-tropical-cyclone-gordon","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37301,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions\/37301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}