{"id":9010,"date":"2010-10-30T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T10:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/30\/tomas-is-suddenly-a-hurricane\/"},"modified":"2010-10-30T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T10:36:58","slug":"tomas-is-suddenly-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/tomas-is-suddenly-a-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas is, suddenly, a hurricane &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and almost as interesting as <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/shary_its_complicated.php\">his enigmatic sister, Shary<\/a>.  Tomas formed farther south than Hurricanes often do, hung around for a long time as a tropical depression, then blew up to hurricane strength very quickly.  Having been declared a hurricane just a few moments ago, it may reach Category Three status as early as Monday, certainly by Tuesday.  It will track in it&#8217;s current direction, staying south of DR\/Haiti and heading pretty much directly towards Jamaica, though it will likely turn north towards Cuba before hitting Rastaland.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see how Tomas is NOT going to be a serious problem for someone.  It will srengthen over the next four days and likely remain a strong hurricane for a while afterwards.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT1+shtml\/301432.shtml?\">From the National Hurricane Center:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hurricane warning is in effect for&#8230;<br \/>\n* St. Vincent and the Grenadines<br \/>\n* St. Lucia<br \/>\n* Martinique<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm warning is in effect for&#8230;<br \/>\n* Barbados<br \/>\n* Dominica<br \/>\n* Trinidad and Tobago<br \/>\n* Grenada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and almost as interesting as his enigmatic sister, Shary. Tomas formed farther south than Hurricanes often do, hung around for a long time as a tropical depression, then blew up to hurricane strength very quickly. Having been declared a hurricane just a few moments ago, it may reach Category Three status as early as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/tomas-is-suddenly-a-hurricane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tomas is, suddenly, a hurricane &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1190],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2lk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}