Friday, August 24, 2012

Tropical Storm Watch Issued for Southern Florida

The Florida Keys and the southern Florida peninsula are under a tropical storm watch tonight, with the center of Isaac about 790 miles southeast of Miami, the National Weather Service reports.
The storm has shifted to the east slightly, keeping the Tampa Bay area within the cone of uncertainty. Tropical Storm Isaac is 880 miles southeast of Naples.
Florida's tropical storm watch extends from the Keys to Palm Beach County and (inland) to Glades County, as the storm intensifies, with winds reaching 65 mph.
At 6 p.m. Friday, the storm was traveling in a northeast direction at 16 mph.
Isaac is expected to move across eastern Cuba Sunday. It is projected to travel west of Tampa Bay Tuesday morning, as a Category 1 hurricane.
If the storm stays on this track, it will travel near Tampa during the Republican National Convention, which

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