{"id":24672,"date":"2017-09-08T19:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T23:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=24672"},"modified":"2017-09-08T19:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T23:40:44","slug":"friday-evening-update-on-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=24672","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Update On Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, folks. Hurricane Irma continues to target Florida for a devastating hit and the remnants will likely blow into Kentucky early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Irma continues to push westward as a strong Cat 4 hurricane and may brush Cuba before turning due north. The NHC is now doing what I suspected and forecasting Irma to become a Cat 5 again before moving into south Florida&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssd.noaa.gov\/PS\/TROP\/floaters\/11L\/imagery\/avn_lalo-animated.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goes.noaa.gov\/GIFS\/HUIR.JPG\" alt=\"Hurricane Infrared GOES East\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The forecast track from the National Hurricane Center is a worst case scenario for Florida and brings this thing toward Kentucky\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"coneimage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/storm_graphics\/AT11\/refresh\/AL112017_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png\/205603_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png\" alt=\"cone graphic\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/storm_graphics\/AT11\/refresh\/AL112017_wind_probs_34_F120+png\/215356.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a devastating track for much of the Florida Peninsula, and that&#8217;s likely an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>The latest models continue to bring rain and wind from Irma all the way into Kentucky. The NAM shows the first bands arriving late Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=24675\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24675\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NAM-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS is similar and shows the lingering low&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=24674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24674\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/GFS-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see you tonight with another update. Take care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, folks. Hurricane Irma continues to target Florida for a devastating hit and the remnants will likely blow into Kentucky early next week. Irma continues to push westward as a strong Cat 4 hurricane and may brush Cuba before turning due north. The NHC is now doing what I suspected and forecasting Irma to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}