{"id":96806,"date":"2019-09-29T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hurricane-lorenzo-became-a-category-5-saturday-night-strongest-on-record-in-eastern-atlantic-ocean-threat-to-azores"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:23:06","slug":"hurricane-lorenzo-became-a-category-5-saturday-night-strongest-on-record-in-eastern-atlantic-ocean-threat-to-azores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hurricane-lorenzo-became-a-category-5-saturday-night-strongest-on-record-in-eastern-atlantic-ocean-threat-to-azores","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Lorenzo Became a Category 5 Saturday Night, Strongest on Record in Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Threat to Azores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hurricane-lorenzo-became-a-category-5-saturday-night-strongest-on-record-in-eastern-atlantic-ocean-threat-to-azores.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Lorenzo intensified into a <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/safety\/hurricane\/news\/2018-06-06-saffir-simpson-hurricane-wind-scale\">Category 5<\/a> hurricane Saturday night, smashing a record for the easternmost Atlantic hurricane to attain such a strong intensity, and poses a danger to the Azores this week.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo rapidly deepened Saturday from Category 3 status with estimated maximum sustained winds of 115 mph at 11 a.m. EDT to Category 5 status with winds of 160 mph just 12 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>This is by far the farthest east in the Atlantic Ocean any of the previous 35 Category 5 hurricanes have occurred in records dating to the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Lorenzo intensified into a Category 5 hurricane Saturday night, smashing a record for the easternmost Atlantic hurricane to attain such a strong intensity, and poses a danger to the Azores this week. Lorenzo rapidly deepened Saturday from Category 3 status with estimated maximum sustained winds of 115 mph at 11 a.m. EDT to Category [\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-96806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96806","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=96806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}