{"id":106817,"date":"2024-08-16T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hurricane-ernesto-strengthens-to-category-2-as-it-approaches-bermuda\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T18:03:28","slug":"hurricane-ernesto-strengthens-to-category-2-as-it-approaches-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hurricane-ernesto-strengthens-to-category-2-as-it-approaches-bermuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ernesto strengthens to Category 2 as it approaches Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-16\/map2-abc-ml-240816_1723814323066_hpEmbed_16x9.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A hurricane warning has been issued for Bermuda as Ernesto strengthened to a Category 2 storm overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane is forecast to strengthen on Friday, but will remain a Category 2 storm as it passes Bermuda. \u00a0<br \/>Flash flooding covers a roadway after Tropical Storm Ernesto moved through the area in Dorado, Puert&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane will approach Bermuda Friday night as the eye wall &#8212; with its strongest winds &#8212; passes over Bermuda early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Damaging winds near 90 mph and rainfall of up to 15 inches are possible.<\/p>\n<p>While it won&#8217;t threaten the U.S. with landfall, a high rip current risk and large waves are reaching Florida on Friday and the Northeast from Saturday through Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Northeast, waves could be 6 to 9 feet close to the shore and over 10 feet away from the coast.<\/p>\n<p>After Bermuda, Ernesto will move northeast and brush Newfoundland with winds up to 80 mph early next week.<\/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; A hurricane warning has been issued for Bermuda as Ernesto strengthened to a Category 2 storm overnight. Ernesto had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph Friday morning. The hurricane is forecast to strengthen on Friday, but will remain a Category 2 storm as it passes<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/hurricane-ernesto-strengthens-to-category-2-as-it-approaches-bermuda\/\">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\/106817"}],"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=106817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}