Over 800 persons were killed by Matthew in Haiti

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https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3472
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Friday brought very good news and very bad news on Hurricane Matthew. The powerful storm stayed just far enough offshore to spare Florida its worst, but reports from Haiti showed that Matthew was far more of a disaster than initially thought. Now that relief workers and other offiicals have made it to Haiti’s hard-hit southwest corner, they report catastophic conditions and a mounting death toll. More than 800 people have died in Haiti, and that number is expected to grow, perhaps dramatically, as rescue and relief efforts continue.

As of 5 pm EDT Friday, the center of Matthew was located about 40 miles east of Jacksonville Beach, FL, moving north at 12 mph. Matthew’s top sustained winds had dropped to 110 mph, making it a high-end Category 2 storm. According to Phil Klotzbach (Colorado State University) Matthew’s impressive duration of just over seven days as a major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) put it in a tie for the fifth-longest such stretch since satellite observations began in the Atlantic in 1966.

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