Coast. The Us Coast Guard is already warning boaters in south florida to prepare for matthew. And North Carolina officials are keeping a close eye on the storm already, and what it can bring to our state. We have coverage tonight starting with mike maze. There are a couple of things that have changed. Forward motion and direction changed just since this afternoon. Its a slow mover. The up level winds are light where it is moving north northeast about 8 Miles Per Hour, but its picking up. Earlier todays it was a 6 Miles Per Hour, so its picking up a bit. Once it gets north of the islands it should move quickly past cuba. These are the numbers as of 8 00 in the National Hurricane center. We might have an update before 10 00, and heres the storm located now, top winds still north northeast at Miles Per Hour 8 Miles Per Hour, and heres the intensity, not changing since the 5 00 advisory, but we should have the new advisory by 11 00, and its more of a westward track. In the full forecast we
It is time to start thinking any preparations that you need to take. The nice thing with this as we have some time. This will likely be an event on saturday. Things could change and lets take a look at the satellite picture. The center of circulation is making landfall now on the southwestern tip of haiti. They are looking at 15 to 25 feet of rain on such a country still trying to recover from the earthquake about six years ago. Is just not a good situation. You really feel for those folks. After it passes over haiti and heads up to the bahamas. Winds right now at 45 milesper hour. We will get another intensity update at about 7 50 or 8 a. M. Or 8 a. M. It is moving north at 9 miles perhour. Until the 11 00 advisory from the National Hurricane center. On wednesday the storm becomes a category three storm, and by thursday night it is sitting on the coast of florida. Coming up this morning we will likely have Tropical Storm watches or hurricane watches posted for florida. Look at that. A
Milesperhour. No change as of our 5 am advisory. This is where we update the maximum wind speed and the Forward Motion of the storm. It is moving north at 9 miles perhour. Here is a look at the forecast track. By early wednesday morning it is a category 4 storm and sitting just off the coast of florida. Overnight thursday night into friday it is a category see Tropical Storm winds. As the storm moves near charleston, South Carolina on saturday all of the coast of North Carolina. Our entire viewing area is under that cone of uncertainty. Detrend and the computer model the trend and computer model has been westward. It will be interesting to see what happens at 11 00. For the latest on that. It is a very pleasant morning with a number of cloud cover this morning. Temperatures feel good with 59 in foxboro and 64 in southern pines. Sunshine by lunchtime with 72 degrees in downtown durham. It is 77 as the High Temperature this afternoon and feeling good with sunshine. Mikaya is here with so
Tomorrow it will feel cold. We will be chilly in the morning but by saturday morning we will feel it. Look at whats happening. The sunning the sun is lighting things out. A mix of sun and clouds but overall the sunshine will be like yesterday. Temperatures a few degrees warmer than yesterday. We will head 83 today. 57 durham, 61 buckhorn. Morning temperatures are warm. 60 in south hill, 60 goldsboro and 59 Southern Pines. Your planner, expect temperatures close to 60. 78 at lunch time. 78 at lunchtime, early november. The high is 83 today. It changes after a cold front tonight. We will talk about the rain that will come with this. Coming up. As we get closer to 7 02 am we look at the road whether index. Some of us may see fog as we had out north of the triangle. Around vance and Granville County and the parts of northern Durham County and into the south side of virginia, you can see a little bit of fog. Keep that in mind around i85. Lets zoom into the triangle and get a closer look at
Delay. You can see the list of the delays. They are checking on people today. Adam owens is out there tonight, adam, what are you seeing out there . Reporter right on the line with the the spring lake town limits. You can see here in front of me the are water that rolled over this roadway, this bridge here, deposited all of the sand and seeing the light here you can see there is a lot of debris. A lot of limbs caught up in the side of the bridge and the water level over there off of the edge of the bridge is still very high. Water levels are still high throughout this area tonight. A lot of people are keeping a close eye on the weather radar could only make things worse. Fast running. It is awesome. Reporter when the creek started rising emergency workers went house to house. Knocking on doors, giving them the option to leave. Reporter a lot of the water came from creek state park. Floodwater cut a hole in the damn holding back a massive lake. This is what things looked like a few hour