{"id":11261,"date":"2011-08-22T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2011-08-22T08:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:20:47","slug":"hurricane-warnings-issued-for-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/hurricane-warnings-issued-for-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Warnings Issued For Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hurricane<\/p>\n

A hurricane warning is in effect for the Southeast Bahamas which includes Inagua, Mayaguana, Crooked and Acklins Island, Ragged Island, and also for the Turks and Caicos Islands.<\/p>\n

A hurricane watch is in effect for the Central Bahamas which includes the islands of Long Island, San Salvador, Rum Cay, Cat Island, Exuma and its cays.<\/p>\n

Formerly a tropical storm, Irene strengthened over Puerto Rico with winds up to 70mph, becoming the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season.<\/p>\n

A hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible in the affected islands within 48 hours.<\/p>\n

A hurricane warning means that hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours.<\/p>\n

Irene is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 5 to 10 inches across Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas. Isolated maximum amounts of up to 20 inches are possible.<\/p>\n

Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 15 miles from the centre and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 150 miles, mainly northwest and northeast of the centre.<\/p>\n

Irene is moving toward the west-northwest at near 12 miles per hour and this motion is expected to continue for the few days with a gradual decrease in forward speed. If the 5-day forecast is correct, by Tuesday and Wednesday the storm is expected to reach the Northern Bahamas and the southeastern US.<\/p>\n

Both Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean International are switching their ships’ course on Caribbean routes as the storm approaches the region.<\/p>\n

Bahamian residents are on alert as the storm’s progress is tracked in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irene, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season is moving towards The Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour with higher gusts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[181,59],"class_list":["post-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-hurricane","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}