{"id":1493,"date":"2017-09-19T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T21:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T21:17:26","slug":"cat-5-hurricane-maria-bears-done-on-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/cat-5-hurricane-maria-bears-done-on-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat 5 Hurricane Maria bears done on Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1494\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maria-sat-image.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1494\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1494\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maria-sat-image-300x200.gif\" alt=\"NOAA Satellite image of Hurricane Maria\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA Satellite image of Hurricane Maria<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hurricane Maria at 5 PM EDT (2100 UTC) has continued to strengthen with max winds now at 145 knots (165 mph) and with a central pressure of 916 mb. \u00a0Maria was moving towards the west-northwest (300 degrees) at 9 knots over the eastern Caribbean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane force winds currently extend outward about 30 NM while 50 knot (58mph) or higher winds extend outward 80 NM to the north and about 60 NM to the south. \u00a0Max significant wave height 41 feet (12.5 meters).<a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-track.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1495\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-track-300x246.png\" alt=\"Maria track\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-track-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-track-768x630.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-track.png 897w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eye of Maria is forecast to move near the U. S. Virgin Islands tonight and across Puerto Rico on Wednesday, followed by a track just north of the eastern Dominican Republic Wednesday night and Thursday, then turning towards the northwest then north Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Maria&#8217;s core is expected to move near or over St. Croix and Puerto Rico tonight and Wednesday, bringing life-threatening wind, storm surge, and rainfall impacts to portions of those islands.<\/p>\n<p>A gradual weakening trend is forecast after the eye passes over Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1496\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-Hurricane-wind-risk.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1496\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1496\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-Hurricane-wind-risk-1024x600.png\" alt=\"Risk for encountering sustained winds of hurricane force.\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-Hurricane-wind-risk-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-Hurricane-wind-risk-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-Hurricane-wind-risk-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Maria-Hurricane-wind-risk.png 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Risk for encountering sustained winds of hurricane force.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/graphics_at5.shtml?cone#contents\">Latest NOAA NHC Advisories on Maria can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Maria at 5 PM EDT (2100 UTC) has continued to strengthen with max winds now at 145 knots (165 mph) and with a central pressure of 916 mb. \u00a0Maria was moving towards the west-northwest (300 degrees) at 9 knots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/cat-5-hurricane-maria-bears-done-on-puerto-rico\/\">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":[52,43,27,28,84,9,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}