{"id":990,"date":"2016-10-02T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2016-10-02T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:51:51","slug":"hurricane-matthew-sunday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/hurricane-matthew-sunday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Matthew Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_991\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/hurricane-matthew-sunday-update\/matthew3-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-991\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-991\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-991\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew3-300x225.gif\" alt=\"NOAA IR Satellite Image \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA IR Satellite Image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hurricane Matthew has weakened slightly since Saturday due to dry air entering the circulation from South America.\u00a0 Currently max winds are about 120 knots with hurricane force winds extending 30 NM to the northeast and 15 NM to the southwest.\u00a0 Damaging 50 knot or higher winds extend outward\u00a0 60 NM to the northeast and 30 NM to the southwest.\u00a0 Maximum significant wave height is estimated to be 36-40 feet (11-12 meters).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_992\" style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/hurricane-matthew-sunday-update\/matthew2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-992\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-992\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew2.gif\" alt=\"NOAA NHC Forecast Track\" width=\"569\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA NHC Forecast Track<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Matthew is forecast to move northward while slowly weakening passing east of Jamaica and near or over the extreme southwestern tip of Haiti Monday night, passing over the Windward Passage and the easternmost tip of Cuba early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After passing northward of Cuba, models suggest a turn towards the N-NW as it moves across the Bahamas, however, there is still uncertainty in the track and intensity after 72 hours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_993\" style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/hurricane-matthew-sunday-update\/matthew1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-993\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-993\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-993\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/matthew1.gif\" alt=\"NOAA NHC Risk for encountering at least 50 knot winds.\" width=\"536\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA NHC Risk for encountering at least 50 knot winds.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Matthew has weakened slightly since Saturday due to dry air entering the circulation from South America.\u00a0 Currently max winds are about 120 knots with hurricane force winds extending 30 NM to the northeast and 15 NM to the southwest.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/hurricane-matthew-sunday-update\/\">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":[43,27,28,51,9,5,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}