Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. Everyone is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Matthew to see what the powerful storm is going to do. We want to check in with meteorologist leigh spann. It advertise has winds of 130 Miles Per Hour which is down from the weekend when it was a category five hurricane. Now pushing to the north at 6 Miles Per Hour. Its going to put jamaica on the weaker side of the storm. Yes, still bad but not as bad as what we were thinking a few days ago when it was going to be a direct hit. And now im putting the worst weather and the biggest storm surge in haiti where they need it at all. As it moves north over the guantanamo way area, 130 Miles Per Hour early wednesday and then passes through the bahamas and then stays off the east coast. But any wiggle room toward the west could bring more impacts for us here on the west coast of florida. Let me show you two of the more reliable computer models. Both are similar through thursday as it moves into the atlantic an
Russell and im russell rhodes. First dave and the weather. Good morning. Dave how about a 74degree start . Love that. Dew point 69. Northnortheast winds at six miles an hour. Check the 7 00 a. M. Temps around the area, still a couple of spots in the 60s. It really is a nice, nice start citrus county, hernando county, some 60s sneaking into pasco county as well. Wesley chapel at 71. Brandon at 72. And sarasota at 76. A lot of sunshine today, just a a very similar to yesterday. High temps also similar, getting back to the lower 90s. Vanessa all right. Thanks. Its 7 01 right now and we have a couple of trouble spots. We have an update first here on a crash mentioned earlier out of pasco county affecting state road 52 near i75. And now that we have more volumes on the roadway, we have a little bit better of an idea which direction this crash is. Its westbound and were hearing that two lanes are going to be blocked so give yourself a couple of extra minutes Pinellas County. This is a scene
The Hurricane Center and portions of the bay area are in the column of air at the moment. You see the satellite imagery clearly indicates where the hurricane is located. A category four storm than a wellformed system. When you look at the center at east of bia were the strongest winds and very high seas today with winds up to 140 miles an hour and also very high seas measuring over 20 feet. We have seen a foot of rain and portions of haiti so a devastating storm especially on the eastern side of the eye. 14le mentioned the trend of computer models is the shift further back to the west which includes the state of florida. More and more of florida included in the cone of air or cone of uncertainty and the timing is thursday at 2 pm. Previously the strongest winds on the eastern side. On the western side we see a northerly breeze and even drier in this case its better for us but not as good for haiti and the bahamas. 139 mileperhour winds measured near the center according to the Hurrican
I am about to ruin it for some. We have tons of moisture in the atmosphere, okay. We are not going to go from all that rain to nothing. And transition slowly and notice the showers. The tropical downpours approaching the west coast. Again this morning. And, boy, they are so close if not onshore already right around hudson, southward. New port richey, port richey, holiday, a batch of heavy rain that is moving through anclote now and that is going to come minutes or so, and i know i know the last thing you want is more rain. Here is another shower too. Right over the pinellas part of the gandy bridge and that is moving toward south tampa. So we may have started off quiet. Got the sun up on a quiet note, but this is what we are going to have to deal with unfortunately. And i think the best rain chances will be lets say if you drew a line, i4 north where the best rain chances are going to be throughout the day and just more scattered showers and storms at least by labor day. We will knock
Storm and moving quickly through caribbean, west at 15 Miles Per Hour. This afternoon, it could become a hurricane, category one. Actually going southwest before taking a very abrupt turn to the north. By monday morning, again, all weekend to watch this, its just west of haiti and east of jamaica as a category two hurricane. After that, it interacts with cuba and may weakingen back to a category one hurricane with 90 Miles Per Hour this turn to the eaken ack to the category one hurricane with the 90 Miles Per Hour winds. The consensus right there, it will head north and the longer range models have it moving away from the united states. Now it bears close watching because of how quick it moves toward florida before making the turn. And now the Hurricane Hunters are in the system currents expri the strongest wind gust currently and the strongest Miles Per Hour. Pushing in spotty showers in citrus, Hernando County and hillsborough and pinellas and now even into sarasota and manatee count