{"690930":{"#nid":"690930","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Tropical Storm Arthur, first named storm of the season, weakens but flood threat remains","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe first named storm of the hurricane season weakened Wednesday night, but forecasters warned that it still posed a threat of massive amounts of rain and continued flash flooding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, an atmospheric scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the potential for flash flooding will be determined by how quickly Tropical Storm Arthur moves through the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat it comes down to is, is the rainfall going to park itself or become stationary over any of these locations?\u201d Handlos said. \u201cThat is a little harder to predict.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe first named storm of the hurricane season weakened Wednesday night, but forecasters warned that it still posed a threat of massive amounts of rain and continued flash flooding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/handlos-zachary\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, an atmospheric scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the potential for flash flooding will be determined by how quickly Tropical Storm Arthur moves through the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat it comes down to is, is the rainfall going to park itself or become stationary over any of these locations?\u201d Handlos said. \u201cThat is a little harder to predict.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-06-26 14:14:21","changed_gmt":"2026-06-29 14:47:44","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NBC News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/storms\/tropical-storm-arthur-forecast-flooding-first-named-storm-season-rcna350594","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"172317","name":"Tropical Storm"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}