{"id":2062,"date":"2010-09-15T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:03:12","slug":"caribbean-watchful-of-surging-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/caribbean-watchful-of-surging-hurricanes","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Watchful of Surging Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tropical Storm Karl is bearing down on Mexico, with two dangerous category four hurricanes – Igor and Julia – also sweeping in from the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

Karl, packing maximum sustained winds of 65mph (100km\/h), is close to the Mayan Riviera on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.<\/p>\n

Igor, said to be the season’s most powerful hurricane, is moving west-north-west towards Bermuda.<\/p>\n

Julia intensified to category four on Wednesday, with winds close to 135mph.<\/p>\n

Storm surges<\/p>\n

Karl was expected to hit the Yucatan peninsula at the Mayan ruins town of Tulum.<\/p>\n

Although Karl is now a relatively weak system, it is threatening to bring heavy rain. No evacuations have so far been ordered.<\/p>\n

The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said there could be as much as 8in (20cm) of rain in affected areas in Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and northern Guatemala.<\/p>\n

“A storm surge is expected to produce some coastal flooding near and to the north of where the centre makes landfall,” the NHC said.<\/p>\n

Igor as seen from space on Mon and Tues. Video and commentary provided by Nasa<\/p>\n

Karl may then head back out to open water and strengthen again.<\/p>\n

At 0300GMT on Wednesday Igor was 605 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Igor and Julia, two dangerous category four hurricanes are sweeping in from the Atlantic. Igor is not expected to make landfall for a several days but storm swells will affect 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":[89],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-hurricanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}