{"id":36788,"date":"2015-08-29T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36788"},"modified":"2015-08-29T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:31:59","slug":"remnants-of-erika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/remnants-of-erika\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnants of ERIKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36789\" title=\"Erika 6\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erika-6-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erika-6-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erika-6.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At 930 AM EDT (1330 UTC), the remnants of Erika were estimated near latitude 21.5 North, longitude 75.9 West. The remnants are moving toward the west-northwest near 22 mph (35 km\/h).\u00a0 This general motion should continue for the next 24 hours or so, with the remnants expected to move near the coast of eastern and central Cuba today and tonight and into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km\/h) with higher gusts.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated minimum central pressure is 1011 mb (29.86 inches).<\/p>\n<p>The remnants of Erika are expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 3 to 6 inches with maximum amounts of 10 inches possible across portions of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and eastern and central Cuba through Sunday.\u00a0 These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides. In addition, rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are expected across the Turks and Caicos<\/p>\n<p>Islands as well as the southeastern and central Bahamas through Sunday.\u00a0 Rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches, with locally heavier amounts, are possible across southern and central Florida beginningon Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last public advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center on this system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 930 AM EDT (1330 UTC), the remnants of Erika were estimated near latitude 21.5 North, longitude 75.9 West. The remnants are moving toward the west-northwest near 22 mph (35&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36789,"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\/36788"}],"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=36788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}