Hurricane Matthew

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Extending a jaw-dropping stretch of rapid intensification, Hurricane Matthew has become the Atlantic's first Category 5 hurricane since Felix in 2007. Matthew's top sustained winds were set at 160 mph in the 11 pm EDT update from the National Hurricane Center. The upgrade was based on radiometer-measured near-surface winds as high as 143 knots (165 mph] gathered in a Hurricane Hunter flight on Friday evening. Now located less than 100 miles north of the Colombian coastline, Matthew continues to move just south of due west at about 7 mph.



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Matthew visited us a few days ago - but he was on the verge of becoming a tropical storm then, and we had about 35 knots of wind, perhaps 45 in the gusts, and about 4" / 100 mm of main.
In contrast, the forecasters are predicting 25" / 600+ mm of rain in Jamaica when he visits them, and SERIOUS winds - like 150 knots. Quite mind boggling.
Poor Jamaica (and Cuba) have enough other problems at the moment, without Matthew contributing. :(

Intellicast have a good animated satellite map :
http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurricane/CaribbeanSatellite.aspx?animate=true
You can see the 'eye' very clearly.

And the Hurricane Watch Net has a very detailed analysis and discussion about Matthew, including his projected track.
http://www.hwn.org/weather/atlantic.html
 
There is a bright well wet side, it has drenched parts of coastal Columbia that have not had rain for 4 years.

The latest NOAA track has Mathew heading for the gap between Haiti and Cuba. GThis means that Jamaica should dodge the worst of the wind damage but it is not good news for Cuba and Haiti.

Mathew has a mind of it's own and has proved hard to forecast accurately. The latest jink to the North has come as a relief to the East coast of the US.
 
TQA said:
There is a bright well wet side, it has drenched parts of coastal Columbia that have not had rain for 4 years.

The latest NOAA track has Mathew heading for the gap between Haiti and Cuba. GThis means that Jamaica should dodge the worst of the wind damage but it is not good news for Cuba and Haiti.

Mathew has a mind of it's own and has proved hard to forecast accurately. The latest jink to the North has come as a relief to the East coast of the US.
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Touch and go for us landing (or not!) in Orlando on Wednesday!!
 
nicho said:
Touch and go for us landing (or not!) in Orlando on Wednesday!!
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I'd be more worried about landing in Orlando which is like a firing range these days, with daily shootings. Be very careful where you go, even the expensive resort hotels around International drive have had shootouts recently:disgust: We have USA family about to visit and they are coming a different route to avoid Orlando in view of several road rage shootings on the I-4 interstate there.
 
Some of my Island Packet friends in the US are in Florida and the Carolinas at the moment and there's long threads on the FB page about where to go and best ways to secure the boat. Particular problem for liveaboards, when really the best advice is to get off the boat and keep yourself safe ashore. Really bad for the poor people of Haiti, yet again, who have taken another pasting after a succession of natural disasters. I do hope the international community organises really quickly to help them out.
 
Oh to have some calm meteo presenters, because we are currently in' hysterical bimbo on the beach' mode here, talking about 40ft waves possible on the world's most famous beach. We have a hurricane watch in effect currently, the stores have been emptied of bottled water, torch batteries etc and there are long lines of people at the free sandbag filling locations. All this is on TV 24/7 so they are really winding people up. Trying to put a realistic yet safe picture together is difficult. We have food stocks squirelled away that can be eaten cold or heated/cooked on a small camping stove that we have . Lots of battery lanterns and spare batteries are to hand and the car is tanked up with a couple of gallons extra in a can. We live very close to the beach but not on it but overlook the ICW and on the 3rd floor of a very solid concrete building. Our boat sale was completed last week so is someone else's problem now, albeit the new owners ask us to 'keep an eye on it until they can move it later this month over on to the Gulf Coast. Not sure what they expect, but she is parked facing into the expected wind direction n a sheltered marina with all floating docks ( pontoons)that can react to storm surge heights up to 12ft over normal tide range of only 2ft. The roller genoa is still on as is the in mast main and cockpit canopy enclosure. I am NOT doing a major strip and stow job for them, they will have to do that themselves or pay someone else, I'm not fit enough to break my back for them FOC.
 
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But your fit enough to do it for some cash after they've paid you $$$$$ for your boat? Surely if you're that prepared, pulling the sails and the canopy for them wouldn't be to hard. I'm sure they would have been grateful and popped round with a couple of bottles as a thank you.

Like you say though, not your problem eh!
 
Bajansailor said:
Matthew visited us a few days ago - but he was on the verge of becoming a tropical storm then, and we had about 35 knots of wind, perhaps 45 in the gusts, and about 4" / 100 mm of main.
In contrast, the forecasters are predicting 25" / 600+ mm of rain in Jamaica when he visits them, and SERIOUS winds - like 150 knots. Quite mind boggling.
Poor Jamaica (and Cuba) have enough other problems at the moment, without Matthew contributing. :(

Intellicast have a good animated satellite map :
http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurricane/CaribbeanSatellite.aspx?animate=true
You can see the 'eye' very clearly.

And the Hurricane Watch Net has a very detailed analysis and discussion about Matthew, including his projected track.
http://www.hwn.org/weather/atlantic.html
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Glad you're ok.

And poor Haiti, too. It never ends there :(
 
Yellow Ballad said:
But your fit enough to do it for some cash after they've paid you $$$$$ for your boat? Surely if you're that prepared, pulling the sails and the canopy for them wouldn't be to hard. I'm sure they would have been grateful and popped round with a couple of bottles as a thank you.

Like you say though, not your problem eh!
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Feel free to fly in and do it for them if you want, they had a week, including a weekend to do it themselves and chose not to, they live 4 hours drive away. I'm 71 had a stroke 3 years back and new hips, so not as agile as I would like, They meanwhile are younger and fitter, plus we live in a mandatory evacuation zone and may have to leave at a moments notice.:p We paid guys to do most stuff for us and the new owners have been given their contact info. Sorry to disappoint...:disgust:. .
 
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Robin said:
Feel free to fly in and do it for them if you want, they had a week, including a weekend to do it themselves and chose not to, they live 4 hours drive away. I'm 71 had a stroke 3years back and new hips, so not as agile as I would like, they are younger and fitter, plus we live in a mandatory evacuation zone and may have to leave at a moments notice.:p we paid guys to do most stuff for us and the new owners have been given their contact info. Sorry to disappoint...:disgust:. .
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Relax Robin, those of us who have followed your contributions to the forum over the years understand the position OK.
Peter
 
Resolution said:
Relax Robin, those of us who have followed your contributions to the forum over the years understand the position OK.
Peter
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Thanks for that, I was beginning to think I was a nasty person. we have been VERY generous with our buyers as we are retiring for good so they get everything boaty we have, free of charge, added to the already huge included inventory they paid for.

But I will get SWMBO to say 3 hail Marys and be very contrite on Sunday by way of apology on both our behalfs, if her church is still there by then
 
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