{"id":1710,"date":"2018-02-19T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:15:15","slug":"update-dangerous-north-atlantic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/19\/update-dangerous-north-atlantic-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous North Atlantic Storm Impacting Shipping Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1711\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1711\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1711\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl1-2-250x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl1-2-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl1-2-768x923.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl1-2-852x1024.png 852w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl1-2.png 1332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA OPC Surface Analysis 1200UTC 19 Feb 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A developing hurricane force storm low over the west-central North Atlantic continues to move eastward at 35 knots producing winds of 55-75 knots with significant wave heights up to 12 meters (40 feet) within 180 NM south and 120 NM west of the center. Over the next 24 hours max winds will be between 50-75 knots with significant wave heights to\u00a0 15 meters (50 feet)\u00a0 within 240 NM in the western semi-circle.<\/p>\n<p>This is a dangerous storm as it is tracking eastward at a fairly low latitude and is affecting shipping from North Europe and Mediterranean ports and US\u00a0 East Coast and Gulf ports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1714\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl2-1-1024x681.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl2-1-1024x681.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl2-1-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl2-1-768x511.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC Significant Wave Forecast 0000UTC 20 Feb 2018<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1712\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl3-1024x681.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl3-1024x681.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl3-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/atl3-768x511.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC Surface Forecast 0000UTC 20 Feb 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/featured_blog_posts\/the_other_hurricane_season\">Learn\u00a0 more about hurricane-force winter storms here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A developing hurricane force storm low over the west-central North Atlantic continues to move eastward at 35 knots producing winds of 55-75 knots with significant wave heights up to 12 meters (40 feet) within 180 NM south and 120 NM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/19\/update-dangerous-north-atlantic-storm\/\">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],"tags":[28,9,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710"}],"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=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}