{"id":12831,"date":"2016-10-01T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=12831"},"modified":"2016-10-01T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T11:30:43","slug":"hurricane-matthew-weakens-as-it-churns-toward-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/hurricane-matthew-weakens-as-it-churns-toward-jamaica.html","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Matthew weakens as it churns toward Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Hurricane Matthew weakens as it churns toward Jamaica<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Hurricane Matthew weakens as it churns toward Jamaica<\/strong> : (CNN)Hurricane Matthew weakened as it churned across the Caribbean &#8212; threatening Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Matthew strengthened into a Category 5 late Friday, becoming the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean since Felix in 2007, the National Weather Service said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">However, by early Saturday, it had downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 km\/h).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Many land areas are at least threatened by the system,&#8221; said Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center. &#8220;Hurricane hunters are going to be flying in and out of Matthew for days to come.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthew Becomes a Hurricane in Caribbean\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XBsfWhvOCm8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8216;Luxury of time&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Knabb noted that south Florida could be threatened next week, but residents had &#8220;the luxury of time.&#8221; He urged people to use it to prepare and buy supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">CNN Weather said it is still unclear whether Matthew will hit Florida, where weather models currently have it possibly scraping. But by late Sunday or Monday, the dangerous storm should be approaching Jamaica, Haiti and eastern Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Canceled flights<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">IBC Airways has canceled all flights Monday to and from the American naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of the approaching storm, the naval station announced via Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">American and Delta airlines issued travel warnings for their customers, saying change fees can be waived for flights to some destinations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The storm was a Category 1 on Thursday. Early Friday, it was re-categorized as a Category 3 storm, before strengthening into Category 4 then 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The latest conditions and forecast track for <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Matthew?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Matthew<\/a>. More at <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sJ4PKvTC01\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/sJ4PKvTC01<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XIdumuOBMd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XIdumuOBMd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u2014 CNN Weather Center (@CNNweather) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNweather\/status\/782139588915494912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 October 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Jamaica Meteorological Service&#8217; Director Evan Thomas said he expected the storm to hit the island and said fishermen have been advised to evacuate from the cays and return to the mainland, the Jamaica Observer reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">US hurricane forecasters predicted rainfall totals between 10 and 15 inches in Jamaica, with some areas getting as much as 25 inches. 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