Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Matthew Already A Record Setter

Hurricane Matthew has already set records:
  • The longest-lived Category 4-5 hurricane in the eastern Caribbean on record
  • A Category 4-5 hurricane for 102 hours, which is the longest that a hurricane has maintained Category 4-5 strength on record during October in the Atlantic basin.
  • The longest-lived major hurricane since Hurricane Ivan (2004).
  • Generated the most ACE (accumulated cyclone energy <length+intensity>) of any hurricane in the eastern Caribbean on record
  • No hurricanes on record have made landfall north of Miami along the east coast of Florida in October and no major hurricanes have made landfall since Wilma in 2005. Each of these records has the potential to be broken in the next few days.


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