{"id":245761,"date":"2004-08-28T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/08\/bahamas-urged-to-keep-an-eye-on-the-storm"},"modified":"2004-08-28T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T18:50:13","slug":"bahamas-urged-to-keep-an-eye-on-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/08\/bahamas-urged-to-keep-an-eye-on-the-storm","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Urged To Keep An Eye On The Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local forecasters are encouraging residents of the southern Bhamas to follow the movements of Hurricane Frances closely over the next few days.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIt is still too early to predict the exact threat Frances poses to the Bahamas, however, forecasters should have a better idea by early next week which parts of the country the storm might affect.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHurricane Frances grew into a category 2 storm on Friday but was not expected to threaten land in the near future.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to the National Hurricane Centre in Florida, Frances had maximum sustained winds near 105mph and was expected to get stronger during Saturday and could develop into a catgeory 3 storm.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nOn Friday evening, the storm was centered about 820 miles east of the Lesser Antilles in the southeastern Caribbean and was moving westnorthwest at nearly 10mph forecasters said.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Hurricane Centre in Florida, Frances had maximum sustained winds near 105mph and was expected to get stronger during Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-245761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245761","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}