{"id":6382,"date":"2015-09-30T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2015-09-30T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:44:51","slug":"wednesday-forecast-calls-for-joaquin-to-strike-n-j-as-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/09\/wednesday-forecast-calls-for-joaquin-to-strike-n-j-as-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Forecast Indicates Joaquin to Strike N.J. As Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"[ads1]\n
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Hurricane Joaquin 11 a.m., Wednesday forecast. (Credit: NHC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hurricane Joaquin will take a westward track and strike the New Jersey coast, the 11 a.m. Wednesday update from the National Hurricane Center shows, though \u2013 as customary \u2013 the forecast is subject to change.<\/p>\n

Graphics released by the hurricane center indicate Joaquin will be on a direct path toward striking New Jersey\u2019s southeast coast around 8 a.m. Monday. At that time, the storm is forecast to be a category 1 hurricane packing winds of 85 m.p.h.<\/p>\n

Joaquin is expected to become what is considered by meteorologists to be a \u201cmajor\u201d hurricane in the short term, eventually reaching wind speeds of 115 m.p.h. within 72 hours, but then will scale back in intensity before targeting a landfall site. Still, forecasters are hesitant to guarantee the outcome of their current forecast.<\/p>\n

\u201cConfidence in the details of the track forecast late in the period remains low, since the environmental steering currents are complex and the model guidance is inconsistent,\u201d the hurricane center said in a forecast discussion statement. \u201cA wide range of outcomes is possible, from a direct impact of a major hurricane along the U.S. east coast to a track of Joaquin out to sea away from the coast. It is therefore way too soon to talk about specific wind, rain, or surge impacts from Joaquin in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should the threat to the U.S. increase, any further adjustments of the forecast to the west would likely be accompanied by an increase in the forecast forward speed, the hurricane center said, with impacts along the coast occurring sooner than currently predicted.<\/p>\n

A hurricane watch could be required for portions of the U.S. coast as early as Thursday evening, according to the discussion.<\/p>\n

The forecast was summed up succinctly on social media by chief meteorologist Gary Szatkowski of the National Weather Service\u2019 office in Mount Holly: \u201cYeah, that\u2019s a problem,\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n

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[ads1] Hurricane Joaquin will take a westward track and strike the New Jersey coast, the 11 a.m. Wednesday update from the National Hurricane Center shows, though \u2013 as customary \u2013 the forecast is subject to change. Graphics released by the hurricane center indicate Joaquin will be on a direct path toward striking New Jersey\u2019s southeast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,1682,182,942],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-hurricane-joaquin","tag-jersey-shore","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-30-at-10.57.31-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1EW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}