Well, the strongest winds now extend 35 miles from the center. That's up from only 8 miles earlier today. Hurricane-force winds now extend 60 miles from the center. It seems to me that eyewall replacement, combined with the slight northwestward shift, is going to make things pretty bad this morning. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Given the track of Matthew this could be very bad. It missed South Florida but it is expected to loop back around and might hit Florida again. For anyone there stay safe and don't take any chances.
Depends where. Still just starting to hit Jacksonville. Expecting my house to be badly damaged when I get back. Jacksonville beach is totally flooded already. Looks like Daytona got hit badly but escaped the worst.
It looks like its beginning its turn to the NE which is great news for Jax, Savannah and Charleston. The further away it stays from them the better. As said before its amazing what a difference 10 miles makes. The latest GFS and Euro models still show this looping around and ending up in the Bahamas again in a couple days albeit much much weaker. From there the remnants go in wildly different places. GFS has remnants heading SW across Cuba and the Yucatan while the Euro shows the remnants heading SE back towards Haiti. Very, very odd.
Nicole... https://earth.nullschool.net/#curre...ographic=-71.95,28.68,2274/loc=-79.947,31.009 Spoiler
Nicole has strengthened quite a bit since Matthew left. It is taking aim at Bermuda as a major hurricane and looks very scary on satellite. Hopefully Bermuda makes it out ok from this.
We just had a near major hurricane come ashore near the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border. We've never seen a hurricane landfall Central America so far south let alone near December. https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-goes?satellite=GOES-E HURRICANE&lat=12&lon=-84&info=vis&zoom=1&width=1024&height=768&type=Animation&quality=92&palette=ir1.pal&numframes=7&mapcolor=gray
