{"id":36741,"date":"2015-08-26T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36741"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:17:26","slug":"tropical-storm-erika-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/tropical-storm-erika-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm ERIKA Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36742\" title=\"Erikca 2\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erikca-2-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erikca-2-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erikca-2.png 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Erika was located near latitude 16.1 North, longitude 57.6 West. Erika is moving toward the west near 17 mph (28 km\/h), and a west to west-northwestward motion is expected over the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>On the forecast track, the center of Erika will move near or over portions of the Leeward Islands tonight, move near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Thursday, and be near or just north of north coast of the Dominican Republic on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph (75 km\/h) with higher gusts. Little change in strength is forecast during the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 105 miles (165 km) primarily to the east of the center.<\/p>\n<p>The latest minimum central pressure reported from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft was 1005 mb (29.68 inches).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Erika was located near latitude 16.1 North, longitude 57.6 West. Erika is moving toward the west near 17 mph&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}