Carolina and North Carolina coast, possibly slamming into one of our coastline sometime friday into saturday. So lets put a center line through the new track. So this is the one we just got at 5 00. Thats yellow at 11 00 a. M. Down here in the bahamas and florida it shoved west but for us up here in south and North Carolina it actually shifted to the east. Again, this zigzagging is very complicated and tough to keep up with. This is a really hard storm to in addition to shifting a little bit to t east tonight at5 00 its also slowed down. So it is possible we could have a category two hurrice saturday afternoon with 100 per hour winds anywhere fromwilmin all the y to charlotte to 200 miles houroff shore, so heres at that means for us. We continue to havgreat fall weher wednesday and thurs no issues. Saturday, and while e trend has been closer to North Carolina, you know, more changes will happen. So you cant walk away yet. You got to keep checking in on this thing. We get new updates ev
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Despite a few more changes in tonight track our message has that change. We could still have a category 2 either on or hugging our coastline as we head into this weekend. The latest forecast track we will keep as a category 4 hurricane as it is through the bahamas through thursday, then coming dangerously close to if not onto the florida coast on friday and then continuing to hug and North Carolina line as it slows down even more no being off our coastline until saturday night which has slowed down every forecast for the last 24 hours. There is a center line of the current updated track. Lets put in the yellow line which was the previous track. As you can see it has shifted west towards florida and georgia bad news for them especially but it has also pivoted a bit away from our coastline. Here is a closer look. Instead of going up over the outer banks the center pledges to the east but again our message remains the same category 2 hurricane 600 miles wine it could be 150 miles or close
The storm approached. The dangerous categories category storm for storm left dangerous left damage to the western part of the country. It had helling 140 mileper hour winds. It tore off roofs of many areas. It uprooted trees and left rivers full of debris. Death totals are unclear as communication on the island has been severely impacted. Alyssa, some very positive news. At least for the moment. At least for the moment. We have to stress that. As much is this track has shifted to the east, it could still shift to the west. This is a closeup view. The center of the track where were seeing this redline this morning, you can see it is staying well offshore of wilmington and continuing to taken easterly turn as we head toward saturday and sunday of this upcoming weekend. It made still be a very strong winds of 100 Miles Per Hour. Parts of North Carolina in that area this morning. At no longer includes the triangle. Adjust includes extreme southeastern portions of our viewing area. We will
News about the path matthew is taking. We have potentially good news. Because the shifted continue to move easterly or westerleigh as we head into the next 48 hours. A big ship to the east this morning happened, and i like to see this. Look at this. The closeup track shows this storm well offshore of North Carolina through sunday morning. Sunday morning, winds would be right around 100 Miles Per Hour. Still a category two storm. It weakens as we head toward next monday. We will watch this. In the meantime, a track that says that stays out to see would have less impact for us. I will write that down in our complete storm team forecast. Right now, want to talk about what is going on locally in central North Carolina. We are seeing some isolated showers right along the newborn area. That is where those are expected to say state today. In broom and interim in hour. Siler city is at 50. 62 in fayetteville and willington. For today, it will be a cool morning. It may be a bit chilly without a