HURRICANE MATTHEW Drives Storm Surge Into Northeast Florida; Hurricane Warning Extended to North Carolina; Dangerous Storm Surge, Rainfall Flood Threat in Carolinas, Georgia
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Category 3 Matthew's center is hugging Florida's east coast.
Storm surge flooding is occurring on the northeast Florida coast.
Wind gusts over 100 mph have already been measured at Cape Canaveral.
Heavy rainfall and storm surge will combine to trigger major flooding in coastal Georgia and South Carolina.
The magnitude of the flooding in coastal South Carolina could match last October.
Matthew will then meander off the Southeast coast or near the Bahamas well into next week.
Hurricane Matthew's eyewall continues to brush parts of Florida's northeast coast with high winds and storm surge flooding, and will spread those impacts, in addition to potentially serious rainfall flooding into Georgia, South Carolina, and southern North Carolina through at least Saturday night.
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Some areas near the coast in Georgia and South Carolina may see flooding comparable to last October's event.
Hurricane warnings have been extended to Surf City, North Carolina, but have now been dropped south of Cocoa Beach, Florida. This means hurricane conditions (hurricane-force winds) are expected within 36 hours. This includes locations such as Orlando, Jacksonville, Florida, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. Jacksonville had not been under a hurricane warning in 17 years, until now.
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