{"id":40328,"date":"2024-07-04T03:21:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T03:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40328"},"modified":"2024-07-04T03:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T03:21:51","slug":"powerful-hurricane-beryl-roars-towards-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40328","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Hurricane Beryl roars towards Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beryl &#8211; a category four storm with winds near 140mph (220km\/h) &#8211; is expected to pass near or over the southern coast in the next few hours, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It predicts &#8220;life-threatening winds and storm surge&#8221; in Jamaica as well as the Cayman Islands later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least seven people have been killed so far as the storm sweeps through the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hurricane warning is in effect in Jamaica, where the authorities have imposed a curfew from 06:00 to 18:00 local time (11:00-23:00 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Andrew Holness urged people to &#8220;take this hurricane seriously&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If you live in a low-lying area, an area historically prone to flooding and landslide, or if you live on the banks of a river or a gully, I implore you to evacuate to a shelter or to safer ground,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Beryl &#8211; a category four storm with winds near 140mph (220km\/h) &#8211; is expected to pass near or over the southern coast in the next few hours, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warns. It predicts &#8220;life-threatening winds and storm surge&#8221; in Jamaica as well as the Cayman Islands later. At least seven people have been killed so far as the storm sweeps through the Caribbean. A hurricane warning is in effect in Jamaica, where the authorities have imposed a curfew from 06:00 to 18:00 local time (11:00-23:00 GMT). Prime Minister Andrew Holness urged people to &#8220;take this hurricane&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40330,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions\/40330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}