Hurricane Matthew was bringing wind and heavy rain to South Carolina and North Carolina on Saturday morning after causing damage along the coasts of Florida and Georgia on Friday.\u00a0 At 9:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Matthew was located at latitude 32.6\u00b0N and longitude 79.7\u00b0W which put it about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Matthew was moving toward the northeast at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 963 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Altamaha Sound, Georgia to Surf City, North Carolina.\u00a0 A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the portion of the coast from Surf City to Cape Lookout, North Carolina.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Surf City to Duck, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
The center of Hurricane Matthew is moving just south of the coast of South Carolina.\u00a0 The winds to hurricane force are occurring in a small area over the Atlantic ocean near the center of Matthew.\u00a0 Wind gusts to near hurricane force were occurring occasionally at the coast.\u00a0 Beaufort, South Carolina reported a wind gust to 71 m.p.h. (114 km\/h).\u00a0 Earlier on Saturday a pier at Foley Beach, South Carolina reported a wind gust to 76 m.p.h. (122 km\/h).\u00a0 Inland stations in South Carolina and North Carolina were reporting winds in the range of 20 to 50 m.p.h. (30 to 80 km) with occasional higher gusts.<\/p>\n
The wind damage caused by Hurricane Matthew is likely to be minor in many locations.\u00a0 The winds are strong enough to bring down trees and cause widespread power outages.\u00a0 There are also some stronger thunderstorms in some of the rainbands that are capable of causing more severe local wind damage and could spin up brief tornadoes.\u00a0 Hurricane Matthew is also producing heavy rain over South Carolina and North Carolina.\u00a0 The relatively slow movement of Hurricane Matthew could produce prolonged periods of heavy rain and cause fresh water flooding.\u00a0 In addition, southeasterly winds on the east side of Hurricane Matthew are pushing water toward the shore and are causing storm surges at the coast.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough over the eastern U.S. is steering Hurricane Matthew toward the northeast and that general motion will continue to today.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Hurricane Matthew will move very near the coast of South Carolina and North Carolina.\u00a0 Since about half of the circulation of Hurricane Matthew is over land, friction will cause the hurricane to weaken slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Matthew was bringing wind and heavy rain to South Carolina and North Carolina on Saturday morning after causing damage along the coasts of Florida and Georgia on Friday.\u00a0 At 9:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Matthew was located at latitude 32.6\u00b0N and longitude 79.7\u00b0W which put it about 30 miles (50 […]<\/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":[540,541,51,98,542,100,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"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=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}