Hurricane Matthew Spares Florida Major Winds; Dangerous Storm Surge and Rains Arrive
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cypresstx on 10/7/2016, 12:30 pm
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/hurricane-matthew-spares-florida-major-winds-dangerous-storm-surge-an
By: Jeff Masters , 4:16 PM GMT on October 07, 2016
snippets:
...The ocean temperature will cool as Matthew progresses to the north, and dry air will be attacking from the west. The combination of cooler ocean temperatures, high wind shear and dry air should act to significantly weaken Matthew to a Category 1 hurricane by Saturday night, when it will make its closest approach to North Carolina.
Major storm surge flooding had yet to materialize from Matthew on Friday morning at any of our tide gauges on Friday morning--though there were reports of serious storm surge flooding occurring in St. Augustine, Florida, where we do not have a tide gauge. At 11 am EDT Friday, persistent onshore winds associated with Matthew's circulation were pushing a storm surge of 2.4 feet to the Florida/Georgia border at Fernandina Beach, 2.0 feet to Jacksonville, Florida at Mayport Bar, 1.2 feet to Savannah, Georgia near Fort Pulaski and 1.4 feet to Charleston, South Carolina, as seen on our wundermap with the "Storm Surge" layer turned on, or the NOAA Tides and Currents storm page for Matthew, or storm surge expert Dr. Hal Needham's U-SURGE page for Matthew. Dr. Needham has some excellent information on the storm surge history of the north Florida to southern South Carolina coast in a Friday morning blog post, The "Protected Coast" is Now the Most Dangerous Place of All. |
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10/4/2016, 8:50 pm- Matthew, Atlantic's Deadliest Hurricane in 11 Years, Heads for Georgia, S. Carolina - cypresstx, 10/7/2016, 8:32 pm
- Hurricane Matthew Spares Florida Major Winds; Dangerous Storm Surge and Rains Arrive - cypresstx, 10/7/2016, 12:30 pm
- With or Without a Landfall, Category 4 Matthew Will Pose an Extreme Threat - cypresstx, 10/6/2016, 8:30 pm
- Masters/ Henson: Once Again a Cat 4 Storm, Potentially Disastrous Matthew Rolls Toward Florida Coast - cypresstx, 10/6/2016, 3:44 pm
- Steve Gregory: MAJOR HURRICANE MATTHEW HEADS FOR FLORIDA - cypresstx, 10/6/2016, 12:42 pm
- Bryan Norcross: Matthew - Historical Hurricane Hit on Florida Likely - cypresstx, 10/6/2016, 12:39 pm
- 10/6 4;10 AM GMT - blog update from Bob Henson - cypresstx, 10/6/2016, 7:18 am
- 10/5 - update from Bob Henson - cypresstx, 10/5/2016, 7:30 pm
- Re: Jeff Masters & Bob Henson - posting twice daily - beachman80, 10/5/2016, 3:47 pm
- today's AM blog by Jeff Masters - cypresstx, 10/5/2016, 1:20 pm
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