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
Cuba. Unfortunately, not going over the 10,000 Foot Mountain tops that could tear this storm apart. But just barely clipping land. Staying over the very warm water. Winds remain at 140 Miles Per Hour and it remains a category four hurricane. Where it will stay as it heads through the bahamas, wednesday and thursday. Then weakening slightly as it approaches florida friday. And then turning back to the northeast as it parallels our coast or is ri saturday. So heres the center line from that forecast track from 5 00. Lets go back six hours with the yellow line. You see the 11 amtrak. So the changes have been shifting west for florida but a slight shift to the east for us. So heres what that could look like. Saturday afternoon, 100 mile per hour winds. A category two hurricane. On our doorstep on top of us, or off shore. It is all still in play. In just a few minutes. We want you to take like at this. This was the scene in haiti. Hurricane matthew making landfall earlier this morning with
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.
Temporary situation. Winds holding at 115 miles an hour moving at 12 Miles Per Hour and tonight it heads for central bahamas. It will stay there for the next 24 hours on its way to central florida, a place that has never seen a hurricane. The native Americans National Hurricane Center has advisory but the new track information has not not yet hit our has not yet hit our system and been deseminated. It will move over warm water and strangen. Json ville and West Jacksonville and West Palm Beach has never seen a hurricane. It is doing to find dry up around North Carolina. It will get close to our coastline and makes that turn as we head into the weekend. Key points slowing weakening. No drastic changes tonight but we still have a hurricane that will be close to the north and South Carolina coastline as we head into the weekend. We expect minor impacts west and north of the triangle. Possibly one to three inches everywhere else. As you whats. Well changes. Well keep you updates on those co
Moved closer to the u. S. It is now a category three storm with sustained winds 120 miles per hour. Hurricane force winds extend 60 miles from its center. Matthew is expected to remain a dangerous storm as it heads north and will be near or over the georgia and South Carolina coast tomorrow. At least 330 people are reported dead in three caribbean nations, most in haiti. More than 200,000 florida residents have already lost powe declared in florida, georgia, and South Carolina. The wind and rain picked up near port st. Lucie overnight but the potential storm surge is the main concern. Dangerous storm surge could raise water levels by 11 feet in some coastal areas and producing devastating flooding. Greg angel, of our West Palm Beach station, wpec is in vero beach where flooding is a major morning, greg . Reporter good morning, annemarie. As you see just from our shot, a little bit of moving around. We are, right now, in the midst of Hurricane Force wind. We are now here in vero beach.