{"id":41360,"date":"2016-10-05T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41360"},"modified":"2016-10-05T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:02:39","slug":"5-pm-update-on-hurricane-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/10\/5-pm-update-on-hurricane-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"5 pm Update on Hurricane Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41361\" title=\"Hur Matt\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hur-Matt-300x241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hur-Matt-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hur-Matt.png 899w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Matthew was located near latitude 22.5 North, longitude 75.7 West. Matthew is moving toward the northwest near 12 mph (19 km\/h), and this motion is expected to continue during the next 24 to 48 hours. On this track,<\/p>\n<p>Matthew will be moving across the Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and is expected to be very near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Some strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days, and Matthew is expected to remain at category 3 or stronger while it moves through the Bahamas and approaches the east coast of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles (280 km).\u00a0 Ragged Island in the Bahamas recently reported sustained winds of 58 mph (93 km\/h), and a minimum pressure of 985 mb (29.09 inches).<\/p>\n<p>The estimated minimum central pressure is 963 mb (28.44 inches).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Matthew was located near latitude 22.5 North, longitude 75.7 West. Matthew is moving toward the northwest near 12 mph (19&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41361,"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\/41360"}],"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=41360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}