{"id":964198,"date":"2024-07-03T19:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964198"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:25:46","slug":"hurricane-beryl-nears-jamaica-kills-at-least-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/hurricane-beryl-nears-jamaica-kills-at-least-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Beryl nears Jamaica, kills at least seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Beryl neared Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday, after flattening homes and devastating agriculture on smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, killing at least seven people and creating &#8220;Armageddon-like&#8221; conditions in Grenada.<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane was about 300 km east-southeast of the Jamaican capital of Kingston earlier today, according to the US National Hurricane Centre, packing maximum sustained winds of 230 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beryl is expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surges to Jamaica on Wednesday and the Cayman Islands Wednesday night and Thursday,&#8221; the hurricane center said in an advisory.<\/p>\n<p>A hurricane warning is in effect for both places.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane conditions are expected to reach the coast of Jamaica about midday local time, with tropical storm-strength winds beginning in the late morning, making outside preparations difficult or dangerous, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Beryl, the 2024 Atlantic season&#8217;s first hurricane and the earliest storm on record to reach the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, felled power lines and unleashed flash floods across smaller islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Beryl is expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surges to Jamaica on Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":964199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1277],"tags":[550,551,552,553],"class_list":["post-964198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-2","tag-dominican-republic","tag-hurricane-beryl","tag-jamaica","tag-killing-7-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}