{"id":1418,"date":"2017-08-31T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:25:18","slug":"irma-becomes-a-hurricane-over-the-eastern-north-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/irma-becomes-a-hurricane-over-the-eastern-north-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Irma becomes a hurricane over the eastern North Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1419\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma2.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma2-300x200.gif\" alt=\"NOAA Satellite image Hurricane Irma\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA Satellite image Hurricane Irma<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Irma has intensified rapidly and is now a Hurricane with max winds to 85 knots as it moves WNW at about 9 knots. Hurricane force winds are estimated to extend outward 10-15 NM on the east side of the circulation. The forecast track takes Irma over somewhat cooler ocean temperatures, however, max winds could still reach or exceed 100 knots. In a few days, the hurricane will be moving over warmer waters again so additional strengthening is likely.<\/p>\n<p>Irma is forecast to track westward or west-southwestward for several days before turning back towards the west-northwest.\u00a0 Irma will likely threaten the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico as a major hurricane next Wednesday and Thursday and eventually could threaten Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida thereafter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1423\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma1-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1423\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1423\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma1-1-300x246.png\" alt=\"NOAA NHC Hurricane Irma forecast track\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma1-1-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma1-1-768x630.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/irma1-1.png 897w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA NHC Hurricane Irma forecast track<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irma has intensified rapidly and is now a Hurricane with max winds to 85 knots as it moves WNW at about 9 knots. Hurricane force winds are estimated to extend outward 10-15 NM on the east side of the circulation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/irma-becomes-a-hurricane-over-the-eastern-north-atlantic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[27,79,9,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}