{"id":310448,"date":"2019-10-22T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=310448"},"modified":"2019-10-22T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:06:06","slug":"typhoon-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/typhoon-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"TYPHOON STRENGTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Typhoon Warning Center and other U.S. meteorological organizations use the following to classify typhoon\/hurricane categories based on maximum sustained wind speeds:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CATEGORY 1: Maximum sustained winds of 74 mph to 95 mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CATEGORY 2: Maximum sustained winds of 96 mph to 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CATEGORY 3: Maximum sustained winds of 111 mph to 129 mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CATEGORY 4: Maximum sustained winds of 130 mph to 156 mph. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CATEGORY 5: Maximum sustained winds over 157 mph. <\/p>\n<p>A typhoon with maximum sustained surface winds greater than or equal to 130 knots (about 149 mph), which is approximately a Category 5 typhoon, is considered a \u201csuper typhoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Joint Typhoon Warning Center<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Typhoon Warning Center and other U.S. meteorological organizations use the following to classify&#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-310448","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\/310448","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=310448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}