{"id":2558,"date":"2020-02-11T19:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:07:11","slug":"two-major-north-atlantic-hurricane-force-storms-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/two-major-north-atlantic-hurricane-force-storms-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Major North Atlantic Hurricane-force Storms Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two major hurricane-force storm lows are forecast to develop and move across the North Atlantic during the next 72 hours producing winds up to 80 knots and significant wave heights to 17 meters (over 55 feet)!\u00a0 This will be a significant challenge to shipping between ports in Northern Europe and the USEC ports.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rapidly deepening storm south of Newfoundland 12Z 12 Feb 2020:<a style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1212Z.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2559 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1212Z-1024x681.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1212Z-1024x681.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1212Z-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1212Z-768x511.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 12Z 13th Surface forecast shows a deepening storm of 944 mb with winds to 80 knots over the main shipping lanes. In addition a second storm is expected to develop along the US East Coast.\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1312Z.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2561\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1312Z-1024x652.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1312Z-1024x652.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1312Z-300x191.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1312Z-768x489.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surface Forecast 12Z 13 Feb 2020<\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC 12z 13 Feb Significant wave forecasts showing waves to 15.5 meters (over 50 feet)!\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1312Z-wave.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2562\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1312Z-wave-1024x652.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1312Z-wave-1024x652.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1312Z-wave-300x191.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1312Z-wave-768x489.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC Significant Wave Height Forecast<\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC Surface forecast for 12Z 14th Feb shows the deep 936 mb low becoming semi-stationary southwest of Iceland while a second rapidly deepening low is moving northeastward well east of Newfoundland deepening rapidly to 924 mb by 15th.\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1412z.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2564\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1412z-1024x652.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1412z-1024x652.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1412z-300x191.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sfc-fcst-1412z-768x489.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC Surface Forecast 12Z 14 Feb 2020<\/p>\n<p>By 12Z 14th significant wave heights are forecast to 17 meters (over 55 feet) west of Ireland.\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1412Z-wave.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2565\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1412Z-wave-1024x652.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1412Z-wave-1024x652.gif 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1412Z-wave-300x191.gif 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1412Z-wave-768x489.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOAA OPC Significant wave height forecast 12Z 14 Feb 2020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanweatherservices.com\/featured_blog_posts\/the_other_hurricane_season\">Learn more about these winter hurricane storms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two major hurricane-force storm lows are forecast to develop and move across the North Atlantic during the next 72 hours producing winds up to 80 knots and significant wave heights to 17 meters (over 55 feet)!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/11\/two-major-north-atlantic-hurricane-force-storms-expected\/\">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":[28,9,5,6,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558"}],"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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}