{"id":11447,"date":"2011-08-31T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11447"},"modified":"2011-08-31T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T13:00:17","slug":"new-hurricane-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/new-hurricane-threat","title":{"rendered":"New Hurricane Threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11448\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11448 \" title=\"ts-katia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ts-katia.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical Storm Katia\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ts-katia.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ts-katia-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ts-katia-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tropical Storm Katia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A  tropical depression in the Atlantic is forecast to become a hurricane  this week, but it&#8217;s still too early to know if it will strike The  Bahamas, still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Irene.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical  depression 12 is forecast to become Tropical Storm Katia \u2014 the name  that replaced Katrina in the rotating storm roster because of the  catastrophic damage from the 2005 storm.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. National  Hurricane Center in Miami said yesterday the depression, which is  currently south of the Cape Verde Islands, could become a tropical storm  and could reach hurricane strength by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5 a.m. this  morning Katia&#8217;s position was 11.8 degrees north and 31.7 degrees west.  Registered winds were 40 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph. Track of Katia  is west- northwest at 17 mph and its minimum pressure was registered at  1006 mb or 29.70 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tropical depression in the Atlantic is forecast to become a hurricane this week, but it&#8217;s still too early to know if it will strike The Bahamas, still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Irene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[181,122],"class_list":["post-11447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-hurricane","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}