Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew is now a very powerful Category 5 Hurricane with winds of 160 mph. It’s expected to push to the north over the next several days. A lot of folks have asked if this storm will hit us here in South Carolina. In order to answer that, it’s important to understand a few things. We meteorologists have reasonable skill at forecasting where a hurricane will be in the next few days. That skill drops off the farther out you go. And that skill really falls off after 4 or 5 days. The reason? There are just too many moving parts. So at this point it looks like Matthew will be somewhere in the Bahamas next Wednesday. And I’ll update you as the storm continues to track north over the next several days.
