{"id":2646,"date":"2012-08-26T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezweather.com\/myblog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2012-09-01T00:05:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T04:05:59","slug":"what-theyre-saying-about-tropical-storm-isaac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/2012\/08\/26\/what-theyre-saying-about-tropical-storm-isaac\/","title":{"rendered":"What they&#8217;re saying about Tropical Storm Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big talk today is a significant tropical weather hazard threat to Florda and the Gulf Coast states.\u00a0 Isaac is approaching the southern portion of Florida.\u00a0 Heavy rain and severe weather, including tornadoes likely today.\u00a0 Once Isaac passes Florida and enters the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico, it will strengthen into a hurricane, possibly a category 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is a sampling of the coverage on Tropical Storm Isaac from weather and news media outlouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Weather Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imwx.com\/images\/maps\/tropical\/map_tropprjpath09_ltst_5nhato_enus_600x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"The Weather Channel News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.com\/news\/weather-hurricanes\/atlantic-depression-storm-nine-20120817\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Targets South Florida, Gulf Watches<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Watches and warnings have extended into the Gulf Coast States in advance of Isaac\u2019s mainland arrival today. Residents are urged to prepare now for dangerous weather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AccuWeather<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"AccuWeather News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.com\/news\/weather-hurricanes\/atlantic-depression-storm-nine-20120817\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Targets South Florida, Gulf Watches<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Watches and warnings have extended into the Gulf Coast States in advance of Isaac\u2019s mainland arrival today. Residents are urged to prepare now for dangerous weather.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"People from Key West to Fort Myers, Tampa and Panama City should be prepared for coastal flooding because of Isaac, Accuweather warns.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/image_content_width\/hash\/46\/84\/46841ace1b9231e2e4401f57d17e7129.jpg\" alt=\"People from Key West to Fort Myers, Tampa and Panama City should be prepared for coastal flooding because of Isaac, Accuweather warns.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NBC News<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"NBC News\" href=\"https:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/26\/13487030-isaac-strengthens-set-to-hit-gulf-coast-as-category-2-hurricane?lite\" target=\"_blank\">Issac nears Florida, grows into likely Cat 2 Hurricane<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Updated 1 hour, 30 minutes ago\" name=\"icon_U\" href=\"https:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/26\/13487030-isaac-strengthens-set-to-hit-gulf-coast-as-category-2-hurricane?lite\"><\/a>\u00a0Wide swath of Gulf Coast is on full alert after tropical storm slams Cuba and kills at least seven in Haiti.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msnbcmedia4.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Video\/120825\/nn_norcross_isaac_120825.grid-2x2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN News<br \/>\n<\/strong>Issac marches toward Florida<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/dam\/assets\/120826124815-storm-cuba-1-t1-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe tropical storm is dumping rain on Cuba as it picks up strength. Isaac is expected to make landfall in Florida as a hurricane. <a title=\"CNN News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/26\/us\/tropical-storm-isaac\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\" target=\"_blank\">FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>HurricaneTrack.com<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>VERY IMPORTANT WEEK AHEAD<\/strong><br \/>\nUpdate: 10:30am EDT, August 26, 2012 by Mark Sudduth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This next week will be extremely important in terms of the impact that Isaac will have on the people of the central Gulf Coast. It seems that I have been in this position before, writing about a possible awful hurricane event coming up for the exact same areas. Indeed, history tends to repeat itself and I hope that what ever happens, that lessons were learned from prior events that will help with the outcome of this one. That is to say, if it even comes to that. Here&#8217;s the issue&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For full coverage, <a title=\"HurricaneTrack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurricanetrack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big talk today is a significant tropical weather hazard threat to Florda and the Gulf Coast states.\u00a0 Isaac is approaching the southern portion of Florida.\u00a0 Heavy rain and severe weather, including tornadoes likely today.\u00a0 Once Isaac passes Florida and enters the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico, it will strengthen into a hurricane, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/2012\/08\/26\/what-theyre-saying-about-tropical-storm-isaac\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august-2012-written-blogs","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezweather.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}