{"id":81731,"date":"2025-08-19T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81731\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:40:11","slug":"hurricane-erin-expected-to-bring-wind-strong-waves-to-atlantic-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81731\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Erin expected to bring wind, strong waves to Atlantic provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Erin will\u00a0bring some wind and strong waves to the Atlantic region over the next few days, but will likely be too far offshore to bring rain.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday morning,\u00a0Erin was\u00a0a Category 3 hurricane, and is set to curve northward over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>CBC meteorologist Ryan Snoddon said there continues to be good agreement among the forecasting models that the hurricane will track south of the Maritimes and Newfoundland this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>However, the storm is expected to\u00a0grow in size over the next two to three\u00a0days and will be very large as it tracks through the region.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the centre of the storm will likely be well to the south, Atlantic Canada may still feel the storm passing through, Snoddon said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A map shows a red and orange area representing the current location of the storm, and white lines representing where it is expected to move over the coming days.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hurricane-erin.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.21900826446281\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Hurricane Erin is expected to track well south of the Atlantic region this weekend. (NOAA)<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly gusty northeasterly winds are looking set for Friday into Saturday for the southern Maritimes, and for Saturday into Sunday for southeastern Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also likely the Atlantic coastline of Nova Scotia and the southeast coast of Newfoundland will experience pounding waves Friday and Saturday, with the threat of dangerous rip currents, Snoddon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Erin will\u00a0bring some wind and strong waves to the Atlantic region over the next few days, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-81731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}