Transcription of Hurricane Matthew
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NATIONAL Hurricane CENTER. TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT. Hurricane Matthew . (AL142016). 28 September 9 October 2016. Stacy R. Stewart National Hurricane Center 7 April 20171. MIMIC MICROWAVE SATELLITE IMAGE OF Matthew AS THE EYE OF THE POWERFUL Hurricane WAS MAKING. LANDFALL NEAR LES ANGLAIS, HAITI, AT 1100 UTC 4 OCTOBER 2016. IMAGE COURTESY OF UW-CIMSS WISCONSIN. Matthew was a category 5 Hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale). that later made landfalls as a major Hurricane along the coasts of southwestern Haiti, extreme eastern Cuba, and western Grand Bahama Island, and as a category 1 Hurricane along the central coast of South Carolina.
Matthew was the first major hurricane, and also the first category 4 hurricane, to make landfall on Haiti since Cleo of 1964. Matthew continued moving northward across the western end of Haiti’s Tiburon P eninsula and into the western Gulf of Gonâve by 1800 UTC (Figs. 7b,c) . The mountainous terrain disrupted
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