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
Ill tell you what, sad news coming away from the new tampa area, southbound on 75. This is just past fowler as you saw from the live shot we showed you. And weve already got a back up. What fhp is doing is actually detouring you off at fowler right before the crash but you have to sit in the backup for a while. Just exit at fletcher and make your way down on 56. Of course, coming from pasco county, depending on where youre at, you can take 275 or come a fatal crash, folks. And all of the southbound lanes are taken away on i75. So were waking up to sad news. And a rough ride there. Coming away from new tampa. Whats the weather looking like . Well, you know, Hurricane Matthew rapidly strengthening overnight. The Hurricane Center had to put out a special advisory. Now its expected to be a major hurricane through the weekend. Sunday evening, its still south of jamaica and making the portion of cuba. Middle of next week, through the bahamas. But most computer models are still in agreement,
Remember yesterday, we were talking about with the wind shear, we would see slow intensification with this system. Well, that didnt happen and it intensified very quickly through the overnight hours. Thats really one of the things. We say this all the time that we struggle with is that intensity forecast. Here is the latest on it. 115 mileperhour winds. Its currently moving to the westsouthwest at 12 miles an hour. It will continue on the track as we go through the next, say, 24 to 36 hours but by saturday, thats when we start to look for the turn. Its going to be the everything is how quickly that turn happens and exactly where it happens but it does look like its going to be moving very close to jamaica, then over cuba and then up into the bahamas and thats about the only thing that is going to slow the wind speeds when it starts to interact with land as we go through the first part of next week. Now, back closer to home, we have a cold front but this front has pulled up stationary.