Gradual strengthening is forecast to begin tonight and continue into Tuesday.
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Record-breaking flooding is occurring over eastern North Carolina tonight as Matthew moves East-Northeast at 14 miles per hour.
If current model predictions are close to reality, Nicole will pass very close to Bermuda late Wednesday into early Thursday as a category 1 hurricane. The storms are about 1,000 miles apart and are expected to stay that way, said Rick Davis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
“Tropical systems don’t like one another so it’s trying to get far from Tropical Storm Nicole”, Hudson said. Nicole was not a threat to the U.S. A tremendous storm surge and high winds were responsible for more than two thousand deaths.
A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 36 hours. For now, we’re still watching Hurricane Matthew and preparing for damage and destructive across the southeast coast.
As the storm moves away from Florida, some forecasts suggest there is a 50-50 chance Matthew will move out to the Atlantic Ocean before looping back to South Florida.
“The whole area is bundled up”, Klotzbach said.
Hurricane Matthew was a ferocious storm.
This visible image of Hurricane Nicole in the Atlantic Ocean was taken by NOAA’s GOES-East satellite on October 7 at 7:45 a.m. EDT. For only the second time since 1900, two hurricanes made landfall in SC during a single Atlantic Basin hurricane season. Because of this, it’s easy to see why Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross says he “cannot overstate the danger of this storm”.
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The season was predicted to be the strongest since 2012, which is also the year superstorm Sandy devastated New Jersey.
