{"id":1020,"date":"2016-10-05T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2016-10-05T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:46:20","slug":"hurricane-matthew-moving-across-bahamas-then-heads-towards-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/hurricane-matthew-moving-across-bahamas-then-heads-towards-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Matthew moving across Bahamas then heads towards Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1021\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/hurricane-matthew-moving-across-bahamas-then-heads-towards-florida\/matthew3-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1021\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1021\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew3-2-300x200.gif\" alt=\"NOAA Satellite Image Hurricane Matthew\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA Satellite Image Hurricane Matthew<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hurricane Matthew as of 0300 UTC 6 October 2016 was moving northwestward through the Bahamas. Max winds have weakened a bit to 100 knots, however, satellite imagery indicates that the hurricane is becoming better organized and the central pressure has fallen to 961 mb so some strengthening and a turn towards the N-NW is expected as it approaches the Florida coast.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1022\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/hurricane-matthew-moving-across-bahamas-then-heads-towards-florida\/matthew1-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1022\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1022\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew1-300x196.png\" alt=\"NHC Forecast Track for Hurricane Matthew\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew1-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew1-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew1.png 889w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NHC Forecast Track for Hurricane Matthew<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hurricane force winds extend outward 30 NM south and 40 NM north. \u00a050 knot or higher winds extend outward 40NM south and 50-70 NM to the north. \u00a0Gale force winds extend out 60 NM southwest to 150 NM to the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew is forecast pass near Andros Island and New Providence in about 12 hours, and then very near the\u00a0eastern coast of the the Florida peninsula. In about 48-72 hours Matthew is expected to turn northeastward. Some models suggest a turn back towards the south or southwest in the longer term.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1023\" style=\"width: 957px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/hurricane-matthew-moving-across-bahamas-then-heads-towards-florida\/matthew4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1023\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1023\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1023\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew4.gif\" alt=\"Hurricane Matthew wind field Oct 6th 0000 UTC\" width=\"947\" height=\"1019\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Matthew wind field Oct 6th 0000 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Matthew as of 0300 UTC 6 October 2016 was moving northwestward through the Bahamas. Max winds have weakened a bit to 100 knots, however, satellite imagery indicates that the hurricane is becoming better organized and the central pressure has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/hurricane-matthew-moving-across-bahamas-then-heads-towards-florida\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}