{"id":95657,"date":"2019-09-01T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hurricane-dorian-now-a-catastrophic-category-5-storm"},"modified":"2019-09-01T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:42:26","slug":"hurricane-dorian-now-a-catastrophic-category-5-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hurricane-dorian-now-a-catastrophic-category-5-storm","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dorian Now a \u2018Catastrophic Category 5\u2019 Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hurricane-dorian-now-a-catastrophic-category-5-storm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Dorian <a href=\"https:\/\/videos.space.com\/m\/5qOwQIT8\/category-5-hurricane-dorian-seen-from-space-on-sept-1?list=6DUiA9a3\" target=\"_blank\">is now a \u201ccatastrophic Category 5\u201d storm<\/a> and the strongest on modern record as it approaches the northwestern Bahamas in the Caribbean, according to a National Hurricane Center update today (Sept. 1).<\/p>\n<p>As of 11 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), Dorian has maximum wind speeds of 180 mph (285 km\/h) as the storm churns about 20 miles (30 km) east of Great Abaco Island, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT5+shtml\/011456.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">the NHC wrote in the update<\/a>. The storm is about 205 miles (330 km) east of West Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevastating hurricane conditions are expected in the Abacos Islands very soon and these conditions will spread across Grand Bahama Island later today,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/hurricanes\/2019\/09\/01\/dorian-atlantic-ocean-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA officials said today in a morning update<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Dorian is now a \u201ccatastrophic Category 5\u201d storm and the strongest on modern record as it approaches the northwestern Bahamas in the Caribbean, according to a National Hurricane Center update today (Sept. 1). As of 11 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), Dorian has maximum wind speeds of 180 mph (285 km\/h) as the storm churns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}