{"id":6402,"date":"2021-04-30T03:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2021-04-30T03:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:18:31","slug":"high-wind-warning-begins-friday-afternoon-with-60mph-gusts-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/04\/high-wind-warning-begins-friday-afternoon-with-60mph-gusts-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"High Wind Warning Begins Friday Afternoon With 60mph Gusts Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14594\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sunset_american_flag.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14594\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14594\" src=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sunset_american_flag-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"An American flag against a sunset. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American flag against a sunset. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Ocean County beginning Friday afternoon, advising residents that wind gusts could reach more than 60 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<p>The warning goes into effect at 2 p.m. Friday and will last through 4 a.m. Saturday morning. According to a statement from the NWS office in Mount Holly, the region will experience sustained northwest winds 25 to 35 m.p.h. with gusts up to 60 m.p.h. or slightly higher expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamaging winds will blow down trees and power lines,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWidespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strongest wind gusts \u2013 those in the 60 m.p.h. range \u2013 are most likely to occur from late Friday afternoon through the predawn hours Saturday, the NWS forecast said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should avoid being outside in forested areas and around trees and branches,\u201d the advisory went on to say. \u201cUse caution if you must drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the wind, forecasters are predicting a sunny day both Friday and Saturday. Friday\u2019s high will reach 67 degrees and Saturday will see a 62 degree high. The winds are expected to calm down by Sunday, which will be mostly sunny with a high of 72 degrees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/04\/high-wind-warning-begins-friday-afternoon-with-60mph-gusts-forecast\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Ocean County beginning Friday afternoon, advising residents that wind gusts could reach more than 60 m.p.h. The warning goes into effect at 2 p.m. Friday and will last through 4 a.m. Saturday morning. According to a statement from the NWS office in Mount Holly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-weather","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sunset_american_flag-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}