{"id":1675,"date":"2013-08-15T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2014-09-20T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:29:06","slug":"tropical-storm-erin-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/tropical-storm-erin-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Erin Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1677\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/113943W5_NL_sm.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1677\" class=\"wp-image-1677 \" title=\"Tropical Storm Erin 7am EST Aug 15 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/113943W5_NL_sm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"372\" \/ rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tropical Storm Erin track forecast at 7:00am EST August, 15 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tropical depression becomes <a title=\"Criteria for a tropical storm warning\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-glossary\/criteria-for-a-tropical-storm-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">tropical storm<\/a> Erin west-southwest of southern Cape Verde Islands.\u00a0\u00a0 As of 8:00am AST (7:00 am EST) the center of Tropical Storm Erin was located near latitude 14.5 north and longitude 25.6 west.\u00a0 Erin is moving\u00a0 west-northwest at about 16 mph and will continue this direction while decreasing forward speed over the next couple days.<\/p>\n<p>Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 40 mph with higher gusts.\u00a0 Some additional strengthening is forecast during the next couple days.\u00a0 Tropical storm force winds extend from the center of Erin out 35 miles.\u00a0 Estimated minimum central pressure is 1006 MB or 29.71 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical storm conditions are expected over southern Cape Verde Islands during the next few hours.\u00a0 Stronger winds are likely in areas of higher terrain on the islands.\u00a0 Expected rainfall accumulations of 2 to 4 inches are expected with Tropical Storm Erin over the southern portion of the Cape Verde Islands<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical depression becomes tropical storm Erin west-southwest of southern Cape Verde Islands.\u00a0\u00a0 As of 8:00am AST (7:00 am EST) the center of Tropical Storm Erin was located near latitude 14.5 north and longitude 25.6 west.\u00a0 Erin is moving\u00a0 west-northwest at about 16 mph &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/tropical-storm-erin-named\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[409,408,126,97,95,151,199,407,368],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-articles","tag-cape-verde-islands","tag-erin","tag-rainfall","tag-tropical","tag-tropical-depression","tag-tropical-storm","tag-tropical-storm-conditions","tag-tropical-storm-erin","tag-wind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}