{"id":1486,"date":"2017-09-16T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2017-09-16T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:53:01","slug":"new-hurricane-threat-for-leeward-and-virgin-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/new-hurricane-threat-for-leeward-and-virgin-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hurricane threat for Leeward and Virgin Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1487\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdsat.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1487\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1487\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdsat-300x200.gif\" alt=\"NOAA NHC Satillite Image \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA NHC Satillite Image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A developing tropical disturbance over the central tropical North Atlantic is\u00a0forecast to become a tropical depression or a tropical storm today so tropical storm watches have been issued for portions of the Leeward Islands. Max winds are currently estimated to be 30 knots (35 mph) as it moves westward.<\/p>\n<p>The current NHC forecast tracks brings this system across the Leeward Islands in a few days and then near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Environmental conditions will be favorable for strengthening during the next several days and this system could reach hurricane strength by the time it reaches the Leeward Islands.<\/p>\n<p>In the longer-term this will pose a threat for Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and the Bahamas and possibly portions of the US Southeast\u00a0Coast.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1488\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdtrack.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1488\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdtrack-300x220.png\" alt=\"NOAA NHC Forecast Track\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdtrack-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdtrack-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tdtrack.png 878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA NHC Forecast Track<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A developing tropical disturbance over the central tropical North Atlantic is\u00a0forecast to become a tropical depression or a tropical storm today so tropical storm watches have been issued for portions of the Leeward Islands. Max winds are currently estimated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/new-hurricane-threat-for-leeward-and-virgin-islands\/\">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":[43,27,83,9,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}