Deadly Hurricane Matthew makes landfall in Haiti

The dangerous Category 4 storm made landfall around dawn on Haiti’s southern peninsula, where many people live along the coast in shacks of wood or simple concrete blocks that are ill-suited to the force of the system’s maximum sustained winds of 145 mph.

Hurricane Matthew now a Category 3 storm in Caribbean

Hurricane Matthew has strengthened to a Category 3 storm in the Caribbean Sea, according to the Friday morning (Sept. 30) update from the National Hurricane Center. The storm is about 105 miles northeast of Punta Gallinas, Colombia, and 495 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.

Hermine Makes Landfall as Hurricane, Brings Dangerous Flooding

Hermine made landfall at 1:30 a.m. this morning, becoming the first hurricane to hit Florida in 11 years. In addition to the hurricane-force winds, forecasters said, the storm could bring “life-threatening inundation within the next 12 to 24 hours along the Gulf coast of Florida…”