{"id":11485,"date":"2011-09-01T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2011-09-01T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:28:50","slug":"katia-no-threat-to-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/katia-no-threat-to-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Katia No Threat to Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11486\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"katia-5day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/katia-5day-250x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/katia-5day-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/katia-5day-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/katia-5day.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Tropical Storm Katia, currently located about 1,285 miles east of the  Leeward Islands, is likely to become a hurricane on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, at 5:00 pm EDT on  Wednesday, Katia was moving toward the west-northwest near 20 mph and  this motion with a gradual slowing of forward speed is expected over the  next 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 70 mph, with higher  gusts. Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Katia is continuing to move to the south of a subtropical anticyclone.  The west-northwestward track is expected to continue for the next couple  of days with some deceleration as the tropical cyclone nears a weakness  in the ridge.<\/p>\n<p>Computer models show a turn toward the northwest as Katia approaches the southwest side of the subtropical anticyclone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Katia, currently located about 1,285 miles east of the Leeward Islands, is likely to become a hurricane on Wednesday night but, fortunately, poses no real threat to The Bahamas.<\/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":[181,122],"class_list":["post-11485","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\/11485","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=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}