{"id":2081,"date":"2018-09-05T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:48:16","slug":"hurricane-florence-now-cat-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/hurricane-florence-now-cat-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Florence now Cat 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2083\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2083\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2083\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Florence-3-300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Florence-3-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Florence-3-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA Satellite image Hurricane Florence<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Major Hurricane Florence continues to develop with max winds now at 115 knots (Cat 4). Florence is moving in an area where wind shear is forecast to increase during the next 48 hours so Florence is expected to weaken somewhat\u00a0 but could again intensify thereafter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2085\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2085\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2085 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-4-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-4-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-4-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-4-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/florence-4.png 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NHC Forecast track with possible longer range tracks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florence is moving towards the northwest at about 11 knots but a strengthening ridge to the north should cause a more westward track for a while. Thereafter, the track becomes uncertain with some models turning Florence northwest the north while others suggest Florence could move close to the US East Coast before turning.\u00a0 If this happens, areas from the Carolinas to New England could be affected next Wednesday through Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2082\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2082\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2082\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Florence-2-272x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Florence-2-272x300.gif 272w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Florence-2-768x848.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Estimated Wind Field Hurricane Florence<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Major Hurricane Florence continues to develop with max winds now at 115 knots (Cat 4). Florence is moving in an area where wind shear is forecast to increase during the next 48 hours so Florence is expected to weaken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/hurricane-florence-now-cat-4\/\">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":[131,27,9,14,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081"}],"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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}