10/6 4;10 AM GMT - blog update from Bob Henson
Posted by cypresstx on 10/6/2016, 7:18 am
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/matthews-shrieking-winds-hit-bahamas

snippet:

If NHC's forecast were to prove spot-on, conditions along Florida's central and northern Atlantic coast could easily top anything observed in many decades. As we noted this afternoon, the Melbourne area--including Kennedy Space Center--has never recorded a major hurricane. Hurricane Dora struck near St. Augustine, FL, as a Category 3 in 1965, but otherwise the Jacksonville area and its 1.5 million residents have never experienced a hurricane of this magnitude. A northward-moving "coast scraper" hurricane has the potential to cause widespread damage over an enormous swath of populated area. In general, the storm surge threat with such a storm would be less than for a perpendicular landfall, but as the Atlantic coast begins curving toward Georgia, the risk of dangerous storm surge will rise markedly, with inundations of up to 8 feet possible from Sebastian Inlet, FL, to the Georgia/South Carolina border.


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