![]() Infrared satellite imagery of Major Hurricane Matthew as it re-strengthened into a Category-4 on the evening of October 6th. However, given extremely warm sea surface temperatures (despite shallow waters) over the Bahamas, Matthew was able to regain strength into a powerful Category-4 as it neared Nassau. Haiti’s geography consists of steep terrain along the Tiburon Peninsula, and weakened Matthew slightly after landfall. Matthew also had the 3rd highest pressure ever recorded in a Category-5 hurricane in the Atlantic Basin of 941 millibars.Īfter catastrophic impacts in Haiti, Matthew continued moving to the north and northwest towards Cuba and the Bahamas as a Category-3 major hurricane. Hurricane Matthew was one of the longest lasting Category-4/5 hurricanes in recorded history in the eastern Caribbean, with a duration of 102 hours as of October 5th at 1800z / 2:00pm EDT (eastern daylight time) as per the National Hurricane Center and NOAA Hurricane Hunters. Matthew was the lowest latitudinally occurring Category-5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin occurring at a latitude of 13.3°N, lower than Hurricane Ivan’s record setting latitude of 13.7°N in 2004. Image credit: NASA, and is of Public Domain. Notice there appears to be less foliage after Matthew. NASA Aqua MODIS image of Haiti/Tiburon Peninsula before and after Hurricane Matthew from top-to-bottom, respectively. Satellite imagery and officials estimated that over 100,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed in Haiti. A humanitarian crisis has unfolded across Haiti since Matthew’s landfall, with the death toll over 1,000 as of October 12th at 8:00pm EDT. Image credit: NOAA Weather Prediction Center, and is of Public Domain use.ĭue to a lack of forestry as a result of widespread deforestation across Haiti, the risk for mudslides and flash flooding increased tremendously. Forecast total rainfall across the northern Caribbean islands as Matthew moved northward towards Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas on October 1st and 2nd. Image credit: NOAA National Data Buoy Center. As the southern eye-wall approached from the south, the winds increased drastically to well over 80 knots once again.īuoy #42058 in the central Caribbean as the eye of Matthew crossed it. The buoy measured a significant drop from >80 knots to near 15 knots. While moving northward towards Haiti, Matthew’s eye crossed right over Buoy #42058 in the central Caribbean. Matthew was forecast to produce 15-25 inches of rain, with isolated areas upwards of 40 inches across Haiti and the Tiburon Peninsula. Matthew would weaken slightly into a Category-4 (130-156mph winds) before making landfall along the eastern peninsula of Haiti. coast. Image credit: NOAA National Hurricane Center, and is of Public Domain use.Īs Matthew reached peak intensity as a Category-5, it turned north * and moved towards Haiti. The triangle tick marks indicate where Matthew lost its tropical characteristics as it moved off the U.S. To read this, the blue dots indicate where Matthew was a tropical storm, pale yellow was location of Category-1 yellow Category-2 orange Category-3 dark orange Category-4 red Category-5. ![]() The track of Hurricane Matthew throughout its entire life cycle. Image credit: NASA EOSDIS Worldview, and is of Public Domain. Major Hurricane Matthew at peak intensity as a Category-5 on October 1st in the eastern Caribbean. Matthew was the first Category-5 hurricane in the Atlantic Basin since Hurricane Felix of 2007, the second-longest period on record. Over the next few days, Matthew would undergo a rapid intensification process and strengthened into a Category-5 hurricane with 160mph sustained winds, the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The next day on September 28th, a tropical storm formed. ![]() On September 27th, 2016, a tropical depression had formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean that had traversed across the Atlantic Ocean as a disturbance of thunderstorms days prior.
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