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The effects of southwesterly wind shear unexpectedly abated late that day, and Matthew began a period of explosive intensification; during a 24-hour period beginning at 00:00 UTC on September 30, the cyclone's maximum winds more than doubled, from 80 to 165 mph (129 to 266 km/h), making Matthew a Category 5 hurricane, [1] the first since Felix ...
Radar loop of Matthew east of Florida late on October 6. Double eyewalls can be seen in the hurricane. Matthew spent roughly five hours over eastern Cuba before emerging over the southwestern Atlantic. The hurricane's eye disappeared from infrared imagery, and it weakened to a Category 3 hurricane, due to the interaction with the terrain of ...
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1943 – 10 years after flying into the Washington Hoover Airport on mainly instruments during the August 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane, [74] J. B. Duckworth flies his airplane into a Gulf hurricane off the coast of Texas, proving to the military and meteorological community the utility of weather reconnaissance. [40]
Hurricane Matthew is expected to make landfall or near landfall on Florida's east coast Thursday night. The deadly category 4 hurricane has already left much of the Caribbean nations in shambles.
He later joined Facebook in 2009 to establish a presence for his website Mike's Weather Page. It has since become a popular site for many weather enthusiasts and meteorology professionals, amassing millions of followers on social media. [7] [8] Boylan is also known for his video coverages of Atlantic hurricanes as a storm chaser. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Preceding Wilma is Hurricane Gilbert, which had also held the record for most intense Atlantic hurricane for 17 years. [62] The 1935 Labor Day hurricane, with a pressure of 892 mbar (hPa; 26.34 inHg), is the third strongest Atlantic hurricane and the strongest documented tropical cyclone prior to 1950. [11]
Clark launched the North Carolina’s Weather Authority Facebook page as a way to cover the weather in 100 counties across the Tar Heel State in middle school, and by the time he got to high ...