As tomorrow potentially for portions of southeast florida, but now hurricane warning are in place for haiti, sections of cuba, the Dominican Republic and the bahamas the next several days. 145 mileperhour winds, pressure down from a previous observation meaning lower pressure you usually get greater intensity. There you see the city of port auprince in haiti on the western side of the island of hispaniola. As the storm continues in a northerly fashion, it could come very close to in cuba and the hurricane warning is in effect there. The bright red colors essentially cooler cloud tops indicated there on infrared satellite imagery. Theres the numbers, 145 mile perhour winds, the red colors there hurricane warnings for the eastern parts of cuba. You see the movement over the next couple of days. Tuesday tomorrow at 8 p. M. Between essentially cuba and hispaniola and veering off to the northwest thanks to an area of High Pressure as it experts obviously now florida is more in the cone of e
Im gene ramirez. The big story this morning is Hurricane Matthew. We want to start with lee leigh to see what is going on this morning. Reporter 145mile an hour winds, and its just minutes away or a few hours away from making land fall in haiti, and the latest forecast, even though and cuba, not enough to bring it down through category 4. Unfortunately it makes the westerly track towards the east coast of florida, and this is friday morning. Still a category 3 hurricane with places like polk and Highlands County in the cone of uncertainty before the system heads up north to the carolinas as a category 2 storm this weekend. The shift to the west before it area, and i will focus obvious two of the computer models, the reliable ones to show you how they have come together. Yesterday the gfs and european models, greatly different, but now theres small differences in timing, but both take it off floridas east coast, and then up through the carolinas, and out into the upper portions of the a
Latest on matthews track. Reporter its so strong miles off the haiti coastline. We just got this video into our news room. You can see the dark clouds, the wind is picking up, and unfortunately we see worse and worse video out of the nation throughout the day. At least four people have been killed. Jamaica has seen heavy flooding. Matthew is the strongest storm to hit the island in decades this is a wider view, and thats relative to florida, and it really is getting very well defined. 35miles for making land fall in haiti, and the Hurricane Force winds are 30 miles out. This will impact the eastern portion of cuba, and its expected to remain a category 4 hurricane through wednesday afternoon, in the bahamas, when it makes the unfortunate west coastline here, and some of polk and Highlands County will remain under the cone of uncertainty before it heads up off the jacksonville coastline, and eventually off the carolinas. Most of the computer models did make the shift. Yesterday t looked
Its a category 4 hurricane. And it should cross over the eastern portion of cuba before making it into the atlantic near the bahamas. Still a category 4 hurricane. And its still expected to make this turn toward the west. The only small difference now is that polk county and Highlands County no longer in this cone of uncertainty. This threat cone. This will wobble back and forth over the next couple days. This is thursday morning. This is friday morning with winds, 125 Miles Per Hour winds just off the shore line. The yellow shaded area. Thats where we expect Tropical Storm force winds. This red area. Thats hurricane force. As we head into thursday afternoon, we could see at least portions of polk and Highlands County with 40 Miles Per Hour. 30 Miles Per Hour winds continue into friday morning. Then the winds head farther as we go through the day tomorrow and thursday morning. Winds about 25 Miles Per Hour. They get stronger thursday night. 32, 34 Miles Per Hour winds. Obviously strong
This forecast path. The weaker side on the western side. The advancing side on the eastern side could be where the stronger winds and typically the storm surge would be located. It could change more of a westerly track. Concern with strong wind gusts on the coastal areas. The cone of air does include portions of the bay area Highlands County meaning that within this time period, say, thursday at 2 00 p. M. , 130 miles an hour winds offshore. That is not what we would experience in places like polk county. Perhaps stronger wind gusts, 30, 40 miles an hour might be possible if it continues to follow the track. There is the center of the storm. You can follow it a little bit overcast around the center itself. Very close to the southeast and eastern tip of cuba at this point on the northerly path. Determine 139 miles an hour wind gusts. This is remarkable because the storm has interacted with land which usually weakens the storm. It shows the intensity and the size of the eye of the storm