{"id":380730,"date":"2020-10-27T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380730"},"modified":"2020-10-27T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:37:05","slug":"big-power-shutoffs-in-california-as-powerful-winds-boost-fire-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/big-power-shutoffs-in-california-as-powerful-winds-boost-fire-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Big power shutoffs in California as powerful winds boost fire danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large swaths of California had no electricity on Monday as utilities tried to prevent the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires while the fire-weary state was buffeted by powerful winds and dangerously dry weather conditions. <\/p>\n<p>About 300,000 power customers estimated at more than 1 million people were in the dark as officials issued warnings for what could be the strongest winds for California this year. <\/p>\n<p>North of San Francisco, a Mount St Helena weather station recorded a hurricane-force gust of 89 mph (143 kph) late Sunday and sustained winds of 76 mph (122 kph). <\/p>\n<p>Winds had calmed slightly by Monday morning but still topped 60 mph (97 kph), the National Weather Service said. <\/p>\n<p>While this is less than what we saw earlier, these winds are still strong and dry conditions prevail, the agency said on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large swaths of California had no electricity on Monday as utilities tried to prevent the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires while the fire-weary state was buffeted by powerful winds and dangerously dry weather conditions. About 300,000 power customers estimated at more than 1 million people were in the dark as officials issued warnings for what could be the strongest winds for California this year. North of San Francisco, a Mount St Helena weather station recorded a hurricane-force gust of 89 mph (143 kph) late Sunday and sustained winds of 76 mph (122 kph). Winds had calmed slightly by Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}