{"id":495,"date":"2015-09-28T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=495"},"modified":"2015-09-28T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T22:52:39","slug":"latest-forecast-has-tropical-storm-off-n-j-by-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2015\/09\/latest-forecast-has-tropical-storm-off-n-j-by-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Forecast Has Tropical Storm Off N.J. by Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6302\" style=\"width: 875px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-28-at-6.46.47-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6302\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6302\" src=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-28-at-6.46.47-PM.png\" alt=\"T.D. 11's percentage threat of tropical storm force winds within 120 hours from Monday afternoon. (Credit: NHC)\" width=\"865\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T.D. 11\u2019s percentage threat of tropical storm force winds within 120 hours from Monday afternoon. (Credit: NHC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A tropical depression is now forecast to evolve into a tropical storm that will be off the New Jersey by Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center on Tropical Depression 11 \u2013 which would be named Tropical Storm Joaquin \u2013 is forecast to be packing 50 m.p.h. winds and centered off the coast of Cape May County by Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. Though the forecast is subject to change between now and the weekend, earlier today forecasters were predicting merely a coastal storm off New Jersey rather than a named system.<\/p>\n<p>Still, confidence in the forecast track remains \u201clow,\u201d according to meteorologists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dynamical guidance indicates some relaxation of the shear in a day or two, so the official forecast shows the cyclone strengthening into a tropical storm later on Tuesday,\u201d the hurricane center said in a forecast discussion document. \u201cGiven the large uncertainty in the track forecast, there is also uncertainty as to what kind of environment the cyclone will encounter during the forecast period, which also leads to low confidence in the official intensity forecast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cheavy rainfall threat continues,\u201d said Gary Szatkowski, chief meteorologist at the National Weather Service\u2019s office in Mount Holly, sharing the updated forecast track on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, way more interest in our region than I like to see,\u201d Szatkowski posted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2015\/09\/latest-forecast-has-tropical-storm-off-n-j-by-saturday\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tropical depression is now forecast to evolve into a tropical storm that will be off the New Jersey by Saturday afternoon. The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center on Tropical Depression 11 \u2013 which would be named Tropical Storm Joaquin \u2013 is forecast to be packing 50 m.p.h. winds and centered off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[29,20,160,162],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-shore-environment","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-tropical-depression-11","tag-tropical-storm-joaquin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-28-at-6.46.47-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}