{"id":1767,"date":"2009-08-20T08:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2009-08-20T08:01:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:01:20","slug":"hurricane-bill-now-a-category-3-as-bermuda-issues-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/hurricane-bill-now-a-category-3-as-bermuda-issues-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Bill now a Category 3 as Bermuda issues warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1768\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1768\" title=\"Hurricane Bill as it nears the United States\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/basin-color-s.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane Bill on Thursday morning is seen as it nears the United States.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/basin-color-s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/basin-color-s-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Bill on Thursday morning is seen as it nears the United States.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wind shear helped to slow Hurricane Bill\u2019s wind speeds to Category 3 levels of 125 mph over the last 24 hours. However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\" target=\"_blank\">National Hurricane Center<\/a> cautions that some strengthening is expected in the next 24 hours and Bill may return to Category 4 levels.<\/p>\n<p>The storm now has hurricane force winds extended out 85 miles from its center and tropical storm winds extending out 230 miles. Moving toward the northwest at 18 mph, the effects of the season\u2019s first major Atlantic hurricane will begin to be felt in the next 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas and Bermuda will begin to experience large swells in the next 24 to 48 hours. Portions of the United States east coast will also feel similar effects Friday into Saturday. The National Hurricane Center is cautioning residents of these areas that ocean waters will be \u201cextremely dangerous\u201d with \u201clife-threatening rip currents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wx33.php\">ThorntonWeather.com Hurricane Tracker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/tropical.php\">Tropical &amp; Hurricane Activity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m8d20-Hurricane-Bill-now-Category-3-but-expected-to-strengthen\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1735\" title=\"There's more to this story on the Denver Weather Examiner's site!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/examiner-more.jpg\" alt=\"There's more to this story on the Denver Weather Examiner's site!\" width=\"250\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/examiner-more.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/examiner-more-150x36.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m8d20-Hurricane-Bill-now-Category-3-but-expected-to-strengthen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>There is much more to this story including latest images and\u00a0forecast tracks on Examiner.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind shear helped to slow Hurricane Bill\u2019s wind speeds to Category 3 levels of 125 mph over the last 24 hours. However, the National Hurricane Center cautions that some strengthening is expected in the next 24 hours and Bill may return to Category 4 levels. The storm now has hurricane force winds extended out 85 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/hurricane-bill-now-a-category-3-as-bermuda-issues-warnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hurricane Bill now a Category 3 as Bermuda issues warnings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}