General. Its just 35 miles away from the southwestern portions of haiti. Barreling there close. Becoming more defined throughout the course of this morning. Winds at 145 miles an hour. Gusts as strong as 175. Its moving north at about 9 miles an hour. So its still moving pretty slow. It has picked up a little bit of Forward Momentum from yesterday morning. Starting to seat thicker bands starting to move across the eastern portions of cuba as well. Cuba will be the next to seat biggest impact from closer to home nsm the meantime before we get to this storm, you can see that our weather is going to be quiet. No rain to speak of, which is good. We need to dry up from last weeks rain before we could see some rain with matthew. We are starting off with a little bit of cloud cover. A big change from yesterday morning. 66 in wilmington. We have 66 in fayetteville. South hill the only spot on the map in the 50s this bit of fog out the lunchtime. We makit to 78 this afternoon. Plrnlt for this t
Its moving to the north at 9 miles an hour and thats one crucial problem with this storm. It is nearly crawling. Its going impact looks like the eastern portions of cuba later today and we move into the bahamas as we head into the middle of the workweek. But, there was one big shift west today and that has the storm potentially making land fall across eastern North Carolina over the weekend ahead. So saturday, it would still be off the coast of south carolina. Winds at 105 and then by sunday morning, could be hat coming up in about 10 minutes. Thank you. We turn now to campaign 2016. The president ial candidates had debated and now the running maitds mates are getting their turn. The first and only Vice President ial debate which is being monitored by cbsn. Mike pence and tim kaine are going head to head. Good morning to you. Tim kaine and mike pence not only have to introduce themselves nationally on the debate stage. They have to make the case that they can step in and be president a
It is time to start thinking any preparations that you need to take. The nice thing with this as we have some time. This will likely be an event on saturday. Things could change and lets take a look at the satellite picture. The center of circulation is making landfall now on the southwestern tip of haiti. They are looking at 15 to 25 feet of rain on such a country still trying to recover from the earthquake about six years ago. Is just not a good situation. You really feel for those folks. After it passes over haiti and heads up to the bahamas. Winds right now at 45 milesper hour. We will get another intensity update at about 7 50 or 8 a. M. Or 8 a. M. It is moving north at 9 miles perhour. Until the 11 00 advisory from the National Hurricane center. On wednesday the storm becomes a category three storm, and by thursday night it is sitting on the coast of florida. Coming up this morning we will likely have Tropical Storm watches or hurricane watches posted for florida. Look at that. A
Milesperhour. No change as of our 5 am advisory. This is where we update the maximum wind speed and the Forward Motion of the storm. It is moving north at 9 miles perhour. Here is a look at the forecast track. By early wednesday morning it is a category 4 storm and sitting just off the coast of florida. Overnight thursday night into friday it is a category see Tropical Storm winds. As the storm moves near charleston, South Carolina on saturday all of the coast of North Carolina. Our entire viewing area is under that cone of uncertainty. Detrend and the computer model the trend and computer model has been westward. It will be interesting to see what happens at 11 00. For the latest on that. It is a very pleasant morning with a number of cloud cover this morning. Temperatures feel good with 59 in foxboro and 64 in southern pines. Sunshine by lunchtime with 72 degrees in downtown durham. It is 77 as the High Temperature this afternoon and feeling good with sunshine. Mikaya is here with so
State are still scheduled for saturday. We will have more on the storms path. We could all here that sigh of relief. I did let out a sigh of relief woman got the 5 am advisory. I do not want to be overly optimistic because the shift to the east could easily ship to the west as we head next few days. This is a close look at the forecast track. This is the 5 am advisory. The could this. Saturday into sunday, staying well offshore of North Carolina. A pretty much takes a hard right turn right around the wilmington area offshore. Were seeing we are staying as a category two hurricane during that time. Wins it 100 miles per hour. Weve been talking about it all week long. This cone of uncertainty. His fellow shaded area still includes eastern portions of North Carolina. At no longer includes the cumberland, sampson, and wayne counties as we head into the weekend. We will continue to monitor this track. If it continues to shift east, that means less and less impact here in central North Carol