c ategory 5 intensity at the lowest latitude ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. Late on September 29, it began a period of explosive intensification that … (©2016 World Vision/photo by Guy Vital-Herne)The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that After devastating Haiti, Hurricane Matthew moved past Cuba and the Bahamas, then inundated coastal areas of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and In late September 2016, a tropical wave formed near the Cape Verde Islands, blew west through the Atlantic and strengthened until it became Tropical Storm Matthew as it neared the Caribbean.Explore frequently asked questions about Hurricane Matthew, and learn how you can help disaster survivors in Haiti:Hurricane Matthew made landfall over southwestern Haiti, the country’s top agriculture production area. Staple food crops including rice, corn, and beans were wiped out. The system originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on September 22, and ultimately dissipated as an extratropical cyclone near Atlantic Canada on October 10. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Guy Vital-Herne)Children play in the rubble of broken houses in Dupuy on the coast of Nippes. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Guy Vital-Herne)People walked for more than five hours to receive aid supplies at a World Vision distribution site. “I really do not know what I will do,” she says. The hurricane's eye disappeared from infrared imagery, and it weakened to a Category 3 hurricane, due to the interaction with the terrain of Cuba.By the evening of October 6, the hurricane had begun to parallel fairly close to the coast of Florida. Atlantic hurricanes typically form from tropical waves moving westward from the African coast. Families are struggling to get by and restore their livelihoods. Hurricane Matthew also destroyed the goods she sells. 1: Original report date 3 April 2017.

(©2016 World Vision/photo by Guy Vital-Herne)Salvaging timbers from a fallen church, Yves, a church member, begins the slow rebuilding process in Saint Louis du Sud, on the southwest coast of Haiti. In wooded areas of the southern coast, many trees were uprooted from flooded ground or snapped like matchsticks by Hurricane Matthew’s 140-mph-winds. (©2016 World Vision/photo by Guy Vital-Herne)Breadfruit and the trees that bore them lie broken on a roadside on Haiti’s southern coast. In some of the storm-affected areas, about 30% of children show signs of stunting, which indicates long-term hunger.World Vision was helping to make good progress in areas like children’s nutrition after the drought in 2015, and 2016 had been a good year for crops.World Vision has been doing some innovative work to address water issues in Haiti.

Experts say it will take at least five years to restore them.Roads and bridges were destroyed and communication lines were cut. October 5 to 9: With heavy rain, … Throughout the night and into the early morning hours on October 7, the National Hurricane Center consistently reminded the public that "a small deviation of the track to the left of the NHC forecast could bring the core of a major hurricane onshore"; had it done so, it would have been the first to move ashore in the United States since By late on October 7, as Matthew advanced towards the Carolinas, paralleling the coast of While the hurricane traversed the Bahamas on October 5, the complex interaction between Matthew, a trough moving off the East Coast, a ridge over New England, and then The GFS model in particular consistently showed this scenario for several days, even taking the remnants of Matthew into the By the time Matthew had made landfall in South Carolina early on October 8, the cyclone had begun to lose its tropical characteristics as it became embedded into the mid-latitude NOAA buoy 42058 is anchored roughly 240 mi (390 km) south-southeast of Enivens sits on the crumbled blocks that are all remaining of his family’s home after Hurricane Matthew blew through Haiti. Bananas and other crops that were plentiful have been decimated by Hurricane Matthew. We had pre-positioned relief supplies such as tarps, blankets, water containers, and hygiene kits to quickly assist impacted families.The response in Haiti continues into 2018 in the areas of food, health, water and sanitation, education, and child protection. Hurricane Matthew is certainly a remarkable storm system in many ways, described by Forbes as an overachiever.

(©2016 World Vision/photo by Santiago Mosquera)Tarpaulins and solar-powered lamps will help families be secure and able to stay near their damaged homes. Our teams are just shocked at the depth of the destruction.”Food, water and sanitation, shelter, and health support were the top concerns.Food security and malnutrition, especially among children, were already a concern. Spirit has updated Hurricane Matthew yesterday by saying the Northeast region of Florida and surrounding area will be hit the hardest, which is exactly what the news is predicting. For Hurricane Matthew Spirit predicted a timeframe around the 10th-12th of October, one could argue that time frame is just a bit late, but unfortunately they can only predict ‘around’ the time frame. The full scale of losses from Hurricane Matthew is still unfolding in some of the hardest-hit areas. Matthew hit Haiti on October 4, 2016. (©2016 World Visio/photo by Claudia Martinez)After Hurricane Matthew, people pick through a jumble of broken houses, trees, and roads in Dupuy on the coast of Haiti’s southwest peninsula. The cyclone was responsible for roughly 600 deaths (with initial reports of up to 1,600), making Matthew the deadliest since By 18:00 UTC on September 29, data from aircraft reconnaissance revealed Matthew to have intensified into a hurricane—having sustained winds of at least 74 mph (119 km/h)—by which time the cyclone was located 190 mi (300 km) northeast of Intensifying at an "extraordinary" pace, Matthew reached Based on a peak SFMR measurement of 165 mph (266 km/h), the NHC estimated peak winds of 165 mph (270 km/h) with a central pressure of 942 mbar (hPa; 27.82 inHg).For several days in early October, an unusual thunderstorm complex developed to the east of Matthew.