{"id":27327,"date":"2012-10-24T19:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27327"},"modified":"2012-10-29T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:31:19","slug":"hurricane-sandy-targets-central-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/hurricane-sandy-targets-central-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy Targets Central Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27328\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27328 \" title=\"accuweather-sandy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/accuweather-sandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/accuweather-sandy.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/accuweather-sandy-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/accuweather-sandy-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hurricane Sandy churned in the Caribbean and Atlantic as it plotted a path from Jamaica and the Bahamas to the Florida coast, forecasters said.<\/p>\n<p>At 11 a.m. EDT, Sandy, packing 80 mph winds, was 65 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica, and 235 miles south-southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba, heading north-northeast at 13 mph, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian government issued a hurricane watch for the central and northern Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica was expected to take the brunt of the category 1 hurricane Wednesday before it moves on to Cuba and the Bahamas Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bahamas, Sandy is expected to produce 3 to 5 inches of rain, with 12 inches in some areas and tide levels are expected to be 5 to 8 feet higher than normal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center, Sandy will continue its northward movement putting the storm on a path to cross the central Bahamas Thursday evening or Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center, Hurricane Sandy will rage across the central Bahamas Thursday evening or Friday.<\/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":[100,181,552,122],"class_list":["post-27327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327","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=27327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}