{"id":349711,"date":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349711\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:50:10","slug":"hurricane-erin-rapidly-intensifies-to-category-five-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349711\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Erin rapidly intensifies to category five storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hurricane Erin underwent rapid intensification, in which a storm strengthens by at least least 34mph in a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erin&#8217;s winds had intensified from 100mph early in the hours of Saturday morning to 160mph, Mr Brennan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next week, Hurricane Erin is forecast to move gradually northward, past the east of the Bahamas and up towards the Outer Banks of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storm will generate life-threatening surf and rip currents up almost &#8220;entire east coast&#8221; of the United States next week, said Mr Brennan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Florida and the mid-Atlantic states will see the most dangerous surf conditions, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bermuda could also see &#8220;life-threatening&#8221; surf conditions and heavy rainfall, Mr Brennan added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because of gale force winds, the US Coast Guard is imposing restrictions for vessels at ports on the St Thomas and St John in the US Virgin Islands, as well as six municipalities in Puerto Rico, including San Juan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US government&#8217;s primary weather agency, has predicted an &#8220;above normal&#8221; Atlantic hurricane season this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of tropical storms that reach category four and five is projected to increase due to global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Erin underwent rapid intensification, in which a storm strengthens by at least least 34mph in a 24-hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-349711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115039713561069254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}