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Models Still Unsure on How Hurricane Matthew Will Impact Virginia on Saturday

Associated Press

 

 

Power companies, marinas, and waterfront communities along Virginia's coast and tributaries are not taking any chances with Hurricane Matthew. Models used to track the storm keep changing, making it hard to predict the impact on Virginia.

Matthew's track has changed dramatically since Tuesday, when models showed the center of the hurricane off the Virginia Coast. Eric Seymour is a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Wakefield.

“They have the system now kind of making it up to about the North Carolina, South Carolina border late Saturday night and then turning eastward away from the coast. The impacts up in Virginia are going to be quite a bit less, if that pattern holds.”

One thing the models can't agree on, just how fast the storm will make that turn to the east. 

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