While it is still too far out to determine the exact path of Hurricane Matthew it is the time to pay attention. Undoubtedly we will get some impact from the hurricane. Using a program for Emergency Managers – which receives information from the NHC the last prediction at the time of this posting they made shows the center of the track just off of South Carolina on Saturday at 8AM. Projecting it forward landfall should be in North Carolina the next day and it continues up the coast. We should feel the affects when it reaches the lower Delmarva peninsula sometime on late Monday when it will be 100 miles away. We should start to see a change in weather then and if the hurricane continues at the same speed and path most likely late Monday or Tuesday we should start receiving the worst of what we’ll get. As noted things can change and there are over 20 different forecast models and they are all slightly different but in the same general consensus. In addition we must pay attention to the weather coming across the county as it will affect the hurricane’s path. With the Internet we don’t have to wait for someone to tell us what the weather will be – we can get the same information directly.
Here are a couple of sites to follow: For an overall look at the weather across the USA and what might be headed our way the National Weather Service has a webpage called the Daily Briefing http://www.weather.gov/briefing/ For official hurricane information visit The National Hurricane Center – http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Also there are a couple of weather sites that import a lot of data from other sites and show a graphic with all the forecast models. They are: Louisiana Hurricane Center’s page http://trackthetropics.com/ and Mike’s Weather Page http://www.spaghettimodels.com/ The last two websites appear to be non-governmental sites however the information appears to be sourced from official weather sites.