Month: October 2016

Hurricane Matthew By Nathan

There is a hurricane moving through the Caribbean as I type. A few days ago, it passed just north of us, and hit Martinique and Dominica. At that time it was a tropical storm. Once it passed Martinique and Dominica, (well mostly,) still as a tropical storm, it moved on into the Carribian Sea. It is forecasted to make an almost a nintey degree turn for Kingston Jamaica, and western Cuba, causing the outskirts to hit Haiti. For a few hours it was supposed to hit Haiti, but then the forecasters saw that it was back on it’s previous course. ( The one that was supposed to hit Jamaica, along with western Cuba). If Matthew continues on its current route, the Bahamas are in for a big hit also and Miami and the surrounding cities may feel it a bit, but on the bright side it is already starting to lose power from a short period of being a catagory 5.  Right now it is a catagory 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 145 mph (230 km/h), with gusts up to 160 mph (255 km/h) and if it really is losing power and not just a break in the wind, it will probably die down a good deal more, but I am not a weather forecaster, so my theory is probably incorrect. Hopefully Hurricane Matthew will die down into a tropical storm or a tropical depression before it hits Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, and the other islands that are in danger of getting hit by Matthew.

 

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Hurricane Matthew as seen from a satellite.