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| Strange Weather Oddity: Tropical Storm Julia Forms over Land in Florida
While a super typhoon was wreaking havoc in East Asia, a little tropical storm named Julia formed in Florida on Tuesday night. Yes, "in" Florida. As in, it formed over land -- a very rare occurrence, meteorologically speaking. The center of the storm was over the city of Jacksonville when it was given tropical storm status late Tuesday night -- but that decision caused some controversy. 'Persistent organization' At 11 p.m., the National Hurricane Center made the decision to name the storm after a small area of tropical storm-force winds was consistently reported for 12 hours. "Given this persistent organization, the system is classifiable as a tropical cyclone and advisories are being initiated on Tropical Storm Julia, the tenth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season," the center said in its discussion Tuesday night. Many meteorologists went to Twitter to disagree with the findings. Some even wondered why this storm received a name while the devastating Louisiana floods in