{"id":1439,"date":"2017-09-04T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:34:51","slug":"hurricane-irma-monday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/hurricane-irma-monday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hurricane Irma IR satellite photo: NOAA<\/p><\/div>\n

Major Hurricane Irma, currently with max winds to 105 knots (120 mph) and a minimum pressure of 944 mb continues to move west-southwestward at about 11 knots. Hurricane force winds extend outward 20-30 NM while gales extend outward 60 NM to the southwest and up to 120 NM to the northeast. Max significant wave height estimated at 38 feet (11.6 meters)<\/p>\n

Irma will be moving westward in a very favorable environment for several days and should bring Irma to a Cat 4 storm within 24 hours. A turn to the west is expected later today or tonight then a more west-northwest track is expected for the next few days. Beyond 5 days, a turn to the northwest or north is anticipated by most models.<\/p>\n

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NOAA NHC Forecast track for Hurricane Irma<\/p><\/div>\n

Current Warnings and Watches<\/p>\n

A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR…
\n* ANTIGUA…BARBUDA…ANGUILLA…MONTSERRAT…ST. KITTS…AND NEVIS
\n* SABA…ST. EUSTATIUS…AND SINT MAARTEN
\n* SAINT MARTIN AND SAINT BARTHELEMY<\/p>\n

A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR…
\n* GUADELOUPE
\n* BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
\n* U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
\n* PUERTO RICO…VIEQUES…AND CULEBRA<\/p>\n

A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR…
\n* DOMINICA<\/p>\n

Longer-term risk currently appears to be from the southern Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba and South Florida. \u00a0The current track projections remind me of Hurricane Donna in 1960.\"Donna_1960_track\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Below is the risk for encountering at least 50 knot or higher winds:<\/p>\n

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Risk for encountering at least 50 knot wind during the next 5 days<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major Hurricane Irma, currently with max winds to 105 knots (120 mph) and a minimum pressure of 944 mb continues to move west-southwestward at about 11 knots. Hurricane force winds extend outward 20-30 NM while gales extend outward 60 NM … Continue reading →<\/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":[52,41,18,27,28,80,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439"}],"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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}