Same spot. That is good for us. It to get closer but also did not get further away i dont have many changes on the impact. Heres a closeup view. Is a category 2 hurricane on saturdayfternoon. But again little ships either direction making a huge difference. Fous a continues to weaken possibly closest to our coastline sometime sunday morning. Before it loops around back down to the southeast what does that mean for we keep the clouds and cooler temperatures around for the next couple of days. The main impact the storm will be saturday. Friday could have some rain but saturdhe impact of illegal cut the area in half diagonally. South d eastf highway 1 could get one to 3 inches of rainor 20 to 30 mileperhour winds. Much less than that farther northwest to go. Another update in x hours and also have a new one of computer close watch on hurricane maw and understand governor patrory is getting another update on the storm. Reporter the state is looking at this map and as you can see as you hea
The track big picture did have a few ships in the near term but now looks like its going to get closer to florida and for only the second time ever, it could be a hurricane strike on the east coast of florida and the overtime was in 1950. As a category three hurricane now it will track across the bahamas through tomorrow and then approach the east coast of florida somewhere around category 4 hurricane. And at some point making that turn to the north and northeast and eventually a loop around where it will weaken and slow down even more. We put a center line through that track and im going to compared to what happened at 11 am. That is the yellow line. There was a shift closer to florida on friday but not much of a change other than weakening and slowing down in the track as it gets close to can see staying offshore not much change night means not much change in our impact. We talk about those coming up. Our Team Coverage moves to the coast. Jonathan rodriguez is in wrightsville beach.
And the its described as cat catastrophic in les cayes. And for our area, we have mandatory evacuations. And unc wilmington issued a mandatory evacuation for all students. All students must leave that campus by noon tomorrow, noon meterologists are getting whiplash trying to keep up with the hurricanes. Its been all over. It definitely has. We had a dramatic change overnight. And we are waiting for the next run to see if they continue along the track which will pull the storm away from North Carolina. Thats the only real change. It continues to hug the coast of florida and South Carolina and makes a dramatic turn to the right with the current forecast track. Well talk more about that just a few minutes ago, we had a new update from the National Hurricane center. We dont get a new track until 11 00 a. M. Which we will share on the noon newscast. But the good news, it has weakened a little bit more, moving northwest at 10, and thats going to kind of turn it toward florida and bring it ac
Emergency to all 100 counties to allow for more resources to move south. School system in the area being proactive, not taking chances. Cumberland and Harnett County schools will close two hours early today. Thousand are leaving their homes ahead of matthew and many ending up in North Carolina to ride out the storm. Leaders still warning people to get out of for the latest on the path of matthew, lets go to Alyssa Corfont. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning to you at home. The latest information from the National Hurricane center, this is still a category 3 hurricane with wind and rain spreading across the east coast of florida. You can see orlando, Daytona Beach on 95 near port canaveral, cocoa beach area. Theyre seeing the worst of the weather right now, very feet there. Jacksonville, florida, and closer to savannah, georgia, southern portions of georgia already starting to see the wet weather. This is not associated with Hurricane Matthew yet. Matthew starts to come into
Were watching it closely and we could have several inches of rain this weekend. Very close to the eye wall here and the eye wall is where we see the heaviest rain and we know its capable of winds in excess of 120 Miles Per Hour. This will approach the coastline this morning with devastating conditions and storm surge to the coast there. Now, locally, were dealing with our own rain not associated with matthew yet. Showers are streaming from the coast and the heaviest rain on the 95 corridor so lets check clayton, goldsboro, clinton, reporting 97 now. We had 50s yesterday. That was nice. 65 durham and 69 rocky mount. You will have to leave for extra time this morning. Showers will continue for us. Theyre around at 3 00, high of 71, breezy and damp as we head toward 6 00, temperature around 69 degrees, and then we the rain and wind of Hurricane Matthew. That comes into play tomorrow. Ill walk you through that in your complete storm team forecast. Well, some coastal towns right now are und