CARICOM governments ready to assist hurricane-hit Member States
From CARICOM Several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments, including Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana, have indicated their readiness to assist Member States that were hit by Hurricane Matthew. On Monday, the Trinidad Express reported that the Trinidad and Tobago’s Office…
Hurricane Matthew Pounds Southeast With Record Storm Surge, Massive Flash Flooding
By: Jeff Masters and Bob Henson From Weather Underground 5:36 PM GMT on October 08, 2016 Hurricane Matthew made landfall near 11 am EDT Saturday about 25 miles northeast of Charleston, South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph…
Haiti Death Toll Nears 900 in Hurricane Matthew’s Wake, Reuters Reports
From Weather Channel Story Highlights The death toll has risen to almost 900 in Haiti following the devastation of Hurricane Matthew. Relief workers are struggling to reach the hardest-hit areas. The government estimates that at least 350,000 people need some…
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Hurricane Matthew closes Florida, Caribbean ports
From JOC.COM Hurricane Matthew has disrupted vessel traffic, closed ports at Caribbean hubs and in Florida, and raised alarms farther up the US South Atlantic coast as the killer storm moves north. The hurricane slammed into eastern Haiti on Tuesday…
Tropical wave forms near Caribbean separate from Matthew, Nicole
BY LAUREN WALCK From Sun Herald A third area of tropical weather has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, separate from Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Nicole. Both that area and Matthew now have possible paths into the Gulf of Mexico,…
Election postponed in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew batters the island/108 dead in Haiti
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND DANIEL CHANG From Miami Herald In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew’s destructive pass through Haiti, which left at least 10 people dead, hundreds of thousands displaced and a death toll certain to climb, elections officials on…
Once again a Cat 4 storm, potentially disastrous Matthew rolls toward Florida coast
By: Bob Henson and Jeff Masters From Weather Underground Hurricane Matthew is once again an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm. Matthew’s top sustained winds were upgraded to 140 mph in the 11 am EDT advisory from the National Hurricane Center,…
Cayman Islands Premier Hon. Alden MacLaughlin, MBE, JP, MLA Statement on Hurricane Matthew
While we give a collective sigh of relief that it looks like the Cayman Islands will be spared the wrath of Hurricane Matthew, we remember our regional neighbours who are bracing for the storm’s impact. An extremely powerful and dangerous…
The Editor Speaks: Monster Matthew defies the experts
Hurricanes are unpredictable and although we have come a long way in tracking them and forecasting where they go they are untamed beasts and have a will of their own. Listening to the experts pronounce for days including on Friday…
Hurricane Matthew Rapidly Intensifies to Category 3 Strength
By: Jeff Masters , 3:00 PM GMT on September 30, 2016 From Weather Underground Hurricane Matthew put on an impressive and unexpected display of rapid intensification overnight, becoming the Caribbean’s first major hurricane since Sandy of 2012. An Air Force hurricane…
