{"id":106746,"date":"2024-08-12T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/tropical-storm-ernesto-to-bring-rain-flooding-to-puerto-rico-path\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:03:23","slug":"tropical-storm-ernesto-to-bring-rain-flooding-to-puerto-rico-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/tropical-storm-ernesto-to-bring-rain-flooding-to-puerto-rico-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Ernesto to bring rain, flooding to Puerto Rico: Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-12\/ABCNews_Ernesto_08122.png\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; The next tropical system is forming in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Ernesto before it reaches the eastern and northern Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm watch has been issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where up to 10 inches of rain and flash flooding are possible Tuesday night through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After hitting Puerto Rico, most computer models show Ernesto strengthening into a hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto is forecast to move east of the U.S. mainland and approach Bermuda by Friday night into Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto is expected to bring rough surf and rip currents to the East Coast next weekend, but it isn&#8217;t forecast to make landfall on the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News (NEW YORK) &#8212; The next tropical system is forming in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Ernesto before it reaches the eastern and northern Caribbean. A tropical storm watch has been issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where up to 10<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/tropical-storm-ernesto-to-bring-rain-flooding-to-puerto-rico-path\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}