{"id":295776,"date":"2019-03-20T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295776"},"modified":"2019-03-20T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:00:01","slug":"risky-rip-currents-seen-until-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/risky-rip-currents-seen-until-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Risky rip currents seen until Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are warning that there is a high risk of rip currents through Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the information received from the National Weather Service in Tiyan, Guam, and compiled at the CNMI Emergency Operations Center State Warning Point, a large trade-wind swell will be maintaining the high risk of rip currents in the next few days <\/p>\n<p>Fresh to strong trade winds continue east of the Marianas. This will maintain east swells of 4 to 7 feet, creating a high risk of rip currents along east facing reefs on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. <\/p>\n<p>Surf of 7 to 9 feet will maintain a high risk of rip currents along east facing reefs the next several days. Surf will decrease on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The public is being advised that, if you become caught in a rip current, remain calm, swim parallel to shore, then back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are warning that there is a high risk of rip currents through Friday afternoon&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}