Powerful Hurricane Matthew was moving slowly north over the Northwestern Caribbean Sea on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Matthew was located at latitude 14.7\u00b0N and longitude 75.0\u00b0W which put it about 255 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.\u00a0 Matthew was moving toward the north at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 145 m.p.h. (230 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 170 m.p.h. (275 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 943 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Warnings are in effect for Haiti, Jamaica, the Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Granma and Las Tunas.\u00a0 Hurricane Warnings are also in effect for the Southeastern Bahamas including the Inaguas, Mayaguana, Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay and Ragged Island.\u00a0 A Hurricane Watch has been issued for the Cuban province of Camaguey, the Central Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Barahona to the border with Haiti.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for the north coast of the Dominican Republic from Puerto la Plata to the border with Haiti.<\/p>\n
Matthew is a very well organized symmetrical hurricane.\u00a0 There is a circular eye with a diameter of about 14 miles (22 km).\u00a0 The eye is surrounded by a ring of strong thunderstorms.\u00a0 Numerous bands of thunderstorms are rotating around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are generating well developed upper level divergence which is pumping out mass.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) is 29.9.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size index (HSI) is 10.4 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 40.3.\u00a0 The indices indicate that Hurricane Matthew is as strong as Hurricane Dennis was in 2005, but Matthew is a little smaller than Dennis was.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Matthew will be moving through a very favorable environment.\u00a0 Matthew will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 There could be some fluctuations in intensity, especially if eyewall replacement cycles occur.\u00a0 Matthew is likely to remain a powerful hurricane.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Matthew has reached the western end of a subtropical high pressure system.\u00a0 Matthew is likely to continue to move north around the western end of the subtropical high.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hurricane Matthew could be near Jamaica and western Haiti on Monday night.\u00a0 Matthew could reach eastern Cuba on Tuesday and it could be over the Bahamas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Matthew is capable of causing region significant wind damage.\u00a0 It will bring locally heavy rain to parts of Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba.\u00a0 Matthew will also create dangerous storm surges along the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Powerful Hurricane Matthew was moving slowly north over the Northwestern Caribbean Sea on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Matthew was located at latitude 14.7\u00b0N and longitude 75.0\u00b0W which put it about 255 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.\u00a0 Matthew was moving toward the north at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[540,541,145,144,51,26,542,448,100,99,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}