{"id":48168,"date":"2019-09-01T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48168"},"modified":"2019-09-10T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:43:10","slug":"cat-5-hurricane-dorian-strongest-in-modern-history-to-hit-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48168","title":{"rendered":"Cat-5 Hurricane Dorian &#8220;Strongest In Modern History&#8221; To Hit Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-09-01\/hurricane-dorian-reaches-catastrophic-category-5\">Cat-5 Hurricane Dorian &#8220;Strongest In Modern History&#8221; To Hit Bahamas<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Update (11:00 a.m. ET)<\/em><\/strong>: Dorian is now the strongest hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT5+shtml\/011152.shtml\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>, with sustained winds of&nbsp;<strong>180 mph<\/strong>, up from 160.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHC_Atlantic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/892736587397816320\/nTDra-V-_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHC_Atlantic\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHC_Atlantic\/status\/1168175951697465344\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extreme winds from the eyewall of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dorian?src=hash\">#Dorian<\/a> in excess of 180 mph will affect the Abaco Islands during the next few hours.  TAKE COVER NOW!  THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION.  Move immediately to the safe room in your shelter.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tW4KeFW0gB\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hurricanes.gov&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHC_Atlantic\/status\/1168175951697465344\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/like?tweet_id=1168175951697465344\">1,637<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHC_Atlantic\/status\/1168175951697465344\">10:57 AM &#8211; Sep 1,<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurricane Dorian has been upgraded by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/mobile\/refresh\/MIATCDAT5+html\/MIATCDAT5_010859.html\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>&nbsp;to a &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; Category Five, the highest on its five-point scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/dorian%20approach11.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The storm, which has sustained winds of 160 mph,&nbsp;is currently heading towards the Bahamas, while the NHC has also warned of a &#8220;life-threatening storm surge and very heavy rainfall&#8221; in the Great Abaco Islands located east of southern Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat-5 Hurricane Dorian &#8220;Strongest In Modern History&#8221; To Hit Bahamas Update (11:00 a.m. ET): Dorian is now the strongest hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas, according to the&nbsp;National Hurricane Center, with sustained winds of&nbsp;180 mph, up from 160.&nbsp; \u2714 Extreme winds from the eyewall of #Dorian in excess of 180 mph will affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48374,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168\/revisions\/48374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}