All. It is located 270 275 miles, excuse me, southwest of actually, southwest of portau prince in haiti and southeast of kingston, jamaica, so lets put this track into motion for you and you can see as we head into this evening and then overnight tonight, its going to stay east of jamaica, traveling over extreme western portion of haiti. This could bring various torrential downpours, devastating feet of rain expected across portions of haiti, a storm surge of 7 to 10 feet, and we are looking at eastern boxer of cuba, seeing devastating conditions as well. That would be tuesday morning, 8 00 a. M. , 130mileanhour wind there. Looks like it would weak into a category 3 hurricane, meaning its a major hurricane as it crosses over the bahamas as we head towards wednesday into thursday and then lets go ahead and bring you to a closer looks like its right off the coast of charleston, South Carolina. Were watching this yellow cone that has spread inland so incolluding more of South Carolina and
Lets look at the mapping system, most of the majors still running in the green this morning. Seeing a few slow downs, providence and up toward the albermarle split. Now a little further to the north up toward huntersville, sam furr at par drive off old statesville, not seeing delays as of yet. A further down to the south, gilead at old statesville road at the crossroads to the huntersvilleconcord road, another accident came in id say 15 minutes ago. Here is another live look i77 at arrowood and certainly starting to see those roads wetten up with the rain during the overnight hours. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this john well continue to follow the Severe Weather that devastating parts of the southeast. Christine get to Kristen Miranda with more new video you just got your hands on in the alert center. Kristen new pictures i first from walb, our sister station in alba in albany, georgia. This tree has fallen in the area, power lines are
Right now in monroe. We will be in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range most of the day. 41 charlotte, 29 much colder in boone, talk about consistency, hickory, gastonia, salisbury, monroe, rock hill at 41. Well go from the low 40s to the mid 50s this afternoon. Wind gusts with us throughout the day under partly sunny skies, heading to the ciaa games tonight out at the arena, tipoff temperature, 39 degrees, keep in mind funneling effect of the wind in town, through the tall towers, will likely feel colder with gusty winds around this evening. Weekend forecast, temperatures going up, i think youll like it, ill have details in a few minutes. Right now check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Starting out with an accident up in huntersville, this is mccoy at kinsey avenue, just down to the south of gilead road, keep that in mind if that is part of your morning travel plan. Live at independence expressway, volume
And gastonburg to alert you on the weather near your home. Tonight a look back at the biggest moments of the story. Prime time. Seems like this played out across our area tonight. This tree fell across interstate 40 this afternoon. Not too far away in long view, this home didnt stand a chance against an old oak tree. In spencer, crews worked to clear an emergency tree across the storm looked like when it rolled by our wbtv news room. The wind was so strong at times it was hard to keep balance. In west charlotte, a tree landed right on top of this car. It sounded like a big crash of lightning. I came outside to see what was going on and looked across the street. The tree was totally down and took out the power line. The scene from interstate it sounded like a bomb. Like somebody dropped a bomb. Homeowner joe shepard and his granddaughter from inside his home on vista court when a tree came crashing down. They are both okay. Scared me to death. I have seen so many trees that fall on peop
A loud explosion and panic set. Jenna as we learn more, well let you ow. We were talking about heavy winds the past few days, but the sun was out today. If you were in the sun, it amanda cox is standing by with the weekend forecast. We did see a nice change of pace with the sunshine coming out. The winds were gusty across the area. The good news is the winds are going to die out as you make your way through the overnight hours and that will help things especially into the weekend. You can see looking at it unc charlotte, the sunshine, the setting, and mainly clear skies throughout the overnight hours. Because of the sound we were able to get to 51 degrees. Slightly below average for this time of year, it was a decent day across the region. Temperatures have dropped. In the 40s for most locations and expect to see the temperatures continuing to fall throughout the overnight hours. Mainly clear skies overhead, the temperatures are going to range quite a bit across the viewing area. High