{"id":2568,"date":"2014-05-27T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2017-08-24T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:41:57","slug":"amanda-a-strong-start-to-a-weak-2014-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/hurricane-news\/amanda-a-strong-start-to-a-weak-2014-hurricane-season","title":{"rendered":"Amanda: A Strong Start to a Supposedly Weak 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/hurricane-news\/hurricane-2014-season\"> 2014 Hurricane Season<\/a> is expected to be weak, Hurricane Amanda started it off\u00a0tempestuously,\u00a0breaking\u00a0the record for the earliest category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean. Previously, that honor had gone\u00a0to Hurricane Adolph which reached a peak intensity of 145 mph on\u00a0May 29, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda weakened to a still-powerful Category 4 at 135 mph\u00a0hurricane on Monday morning and fell to a Category 2 at 105 mph by late afternoon. Despite\u00a0briefly regaining strength to reach 120 mph over night, Amanda dropped back to 105 mph by the afternoon, as predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday P.M. : 155 mph (Category 4)<\/p>\n<p>Monday A.M.\u00a0: 135 mph (Category 4)<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u00a0P.M.\u00a0: 105 mph (Category 2)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday A.M.\u00a0: 120 mph (Category 3)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday P.M.\u00a0: 105 mph (Category 2)<\/p>\n<p>Located 575 miles (920 kilometers) south-southwest of the tip of Mexico&#8217;s Baja California peninsula, and moving north-northwest at\u00a05 mph, Amanda currently poses no threat and\u00a0is expected to weaken to a tropical storm by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in coastal areas, be sure to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/hurricane-awareness\/hurricane-checklist\"> check out our hurricane checklist<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0prepare for the 2014 hurricane season beginning Sunday June 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the 2014 Hurricane Season is expected to be weak, Hurricane Amanda started it off\u00a0tempestuously,\u00a0breaking\u00a0the record for the earliest category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean. Previously, that honor had gone\u00a0to Hurricane Adolph which reached a peak intensity of 145 mph on\u00a0May 29, 2001. Amanda weakened to a still-powerful Category 4 at 135 mph\u00a0hurricane on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,8],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}