One thing we have learned storm after storm on Hatteras Island is that when “the going gets tough, the tough get going.” We sure learned about it in Hatteras village after Hurricane Isabel in 2003 — a storm that flattened the northern end of the village, heavily damaged the rest of it, and cut a […]
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Saturday morning is overcast and hazy, with low clouds. The wind is 10 or 15 mph from the east. The barometer is 29.85 and falling, and the temperature is 78, though it’s very humid with a dewpoint of 75 degrees. The showers of the past few days are on hiatus until the rain begins in […]
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The latest update from the National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City tweaks the forecast for the approaching Hurricane Matthew to increase winds along the Outer Banks and increase storm surge levels on the soundside of southern Hatteras and Ocracoke and along the oceanside on northern Hatteras. According to the latest statement from the Weather Service […]
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Hurricane Matthew’s forecast track shifted slightly to the north overnight and then shifted again closer to the North Carolina coast this morning, bringing the storm closer to the Outer Banks before it moves east out into the Atlantic and eventually re-curves back down to the south. There is already a small craft advisory in effect […]
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Matthew’s forecast track shifted slightly again in the 5 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center, bringing the storm closer to the south coast of North Carolina Saturday night before it moves east out into the Atlantic and eventually re-curves back down to the south. There are no changes to the tropical storm warning for […]
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This morning, Richard Bandy, the meteorologist-in-charge of the local National Weather Service Office in Newport/Morehead City, began the first of two daily webinars on Hurricane Matthew with the headlines, which are promising for the Outer Banks. The National Hurricane Center track, Bandy said, hasn’t changed much since yesterday afternoon. Matthew is forecast to hug the […]
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The Dare County Control Group met again this morning to review Hurricane Matthew. “The current forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows the storm tracking further south than previously predicted and away from Dare County,” according to a news release. “While this is an improved forecast for our area, it is too early to know […]
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Even as powerful Category 4 Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on eastern Cuba this afternoon and preparing to take aim at the Bahamas tomorrow, the Dare County Control Group met and declared a state of emergency for Dare County and all six of its towns. The emergency declarations are effective immediately and allow local officials […]
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Powerful and dangerous Hurricane Matthew made landfall on southwestern Haiti this morning and is taking aim at western Cuba and the Bahamas before it is forecast to move up the southeast coast of the United States, coming near or just over the Outer Banks late Saturday or early Sunday. The message this morning from the […]
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