ATL: MATTHEW - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[JaxGator]

WGV, if you are on here, John Gaughn on TV-4 is showing radar estimates of winds gusting upwards to near 90 mph there. I am curious what is going on out near where you are at the World Golf Village.

Yep, saw that too. Intense. I'm just northwest of WGV and the winds are bad.

[Rail Dawg]

The surge on A1A was 3 miles north of where Hammond Dunes bridge crosses the ICW.

[pgoss11]

Looks like Matthew is trying to reorganize as it pulls away from the coast. May keep cat 3 status longer than anticipated.

Deep convection reorganizing around the center.

I thought the storm was suppose to weaken by now?

[tolakram]

It's made the turn and pulling away. Hopefully this is enough to spare North Florida and Georgia from any additional issues.

[JtSmarts]

Looks like Matthew is trying to reorganize as it pulls away from the coast. May keep cat 3 status longer than anticipated.

Deep convection reorganizing around the center.

I thought the storm was suppose to weaken by now?

The pressure has been slowly rising and the winds are slowly coming down.

[delta lady]

Water has breached/topped the dunes in Jax Beach and is surging towards A1A. You could go surfing on those streets. Looks to be towards the lower end of JB

[Kazmit]

Matthew has cost at least $1 billion so far.

[dhweather]

It never made landfall in Florida, and there will be people griping about all of the "hype".

By my estimates, there was a long stretch of the coast that had a cat 3 eyewall just 10 miles offshore. What a difference 10 miles makes......

Hope everyone is safe!

[northjaxpro]

Looks like Matthew is trying to reorganize as it pulls away from the coast. May keep cat 3 status longer than anticipated.

Deep convection reorganizing around the center.

Also a NE wobble occured with the eyewall looking at radar. The eyewall is just 45 miles E-SE of Jcksonvilleeach currently.

[ronyan]

Matthew has cost at least $1 billion so far.

How do we know that already, it will take more time to come up with a good estimate.

[Kazmit]

Matthew has cost at least $1 billion so far.

How do we know that already, it will take more time to come up with a good estimate.

It's official, but this number should rise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atlantic_hurricane_season

[stayawaynow]

Anyone on St Augustine or in the know please help. My bf parents refused to evacuate Anastasia Island.
Anyone know how high the water got near the ampitheater?

[bjackrian]

Sustained TS force with gust to 57 kt at Jacksonville NAS (KNIP) which is significantly inland. Windfield extending inland a little further than I would have guessed.

METAR: KNIP 071909Z AUTO 33042G57KT 1/2SM +RA FG FEW007 OVC010 25/24 A2923 RMK AO2 PK WND 32057/1907 P0018 T02500239

[ronyan]

Matthew has cost at least $1 billion so far.

How do we know that already, it will take more time to come up with a good estimate.

It's official, but this number should rise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atlantic_hurricane_season

I don't see it sourced, would be cautious about using wikipedia early on.

[pgoss11]

Really worried about downtown Charleston! With a possible landfall there..there would be about 6-9 foot of water on the ground with the surge. That would be just catastrophic.

[JtSmarts]

Really worried about downtown Charleston! With a possible landfall there..there would be about 6-9 foot of water on the ground with the surge. That would be just catastrophic.

Unfortunately I think the Georgia and Lower SC coasts may end up getting the worst that Matthew has to offer.

[swampgator92]

Anastasia Island/St. Augustine Beach/Crescent Beach area. Very likely the surge overwashed the entire island 2-3 feet.

 https://twitter.com/wjxt4/status/784462762965622785

[Soonercane]

Really worried about downtown Charleston! With a possible landfall there..there would be about 6-9 foot of water on the ground with the surge. That would be just catastrophic.

Unfortunately I think the Georgia and Lower SC coasts may end up getting the worst that Matthew has to offer.

Isn't the trough supposed to lift it quickly to the northeast, offshore of GA, and SC?

[Portastorm]

Anyone on St Augustine or in the know please help. My bf parents refused to evacuate Anastasia Island.
Anyone know how high the water got near the ampitheater?

Local emergency management reported on Twitter via a TV met that storm surge on the island was 2.5 feet above ground sea level.

[SunnyThoughts]

Anyone on St Augustine or in the know please help. My bf parents refused to evacuate Anastasia Island.
Anyone know how high the water got near the ampitheater?

You might watch the live coverage here...They continually talk about different areas and show live footage as well as video. They did say something about Anastasia Island earlier, and the flooding going on. Didn't catch exactly what he said about it, but they do have excellent coverage of all the areas in Fla as well as GA. http://www.news4jax.com/live/live-from-wjxt