{"id":9439,"date":"2016-10-05T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:20:20","slug":"forecast-shows-hurricane-matthew-will-stay-clear-of-n-j-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/10\/forecast-shows-hurricane-matthew-will-stay-clear-of-n-j-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecast Shows Hurricane Matthew Will Stay Clear of N.J., For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3038\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-05-at-11.03.21-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3038\" src=\"http:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-05-at-11.03.21-AM.png\" alt=\"The forecast from the National Hurricane Center on Hurricane Matthew, Sept. 5, 2016. (Credit: NHC)\" width=\"624\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The forecast from the National Hurricane Center on Hurricane Matthew, Sept. 5, 2016. (Credit: NHC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows Hurricane Matthew\u2019s track is significantly changed from just a day ago, when it was predicted to brush the New Jersey coast. But the\u00a0National Weather Service said its uncertainty was \u201chigh\u201d and its forecast confidence was \u201clow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest forecast track, released at 11 a.m. Wednesday, shows the storm riding the coast from Florida to South Carolina, then moving eastward into the Atlantic Ocean and making a southeasterly turn. While the forecast is subject to change, the new prediction shows that the storm will not be affecting New Jersey in any significant way by Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The storm will briefly make landfall in Florida near Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie before making the northeast \u2013 and then southeast \u2013 turn. After that period of time, the forecast is still up in the air.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And monitor the forecast. Yes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Matthew?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Matthew<\/a> forecast has changed for the better in our region. But, I doubt that forecast is done changing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Szatkowski (@GarySzatkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarySzatkowski\/status\/783658554137776128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheoretically, if the storm does do a large loop, the East Coast could theoretically have to contend with it again,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOfficialDanSkeldonPage\/\">said Dan Skeldon<\/a>, meteorologist for The Press of Atlantic City, in a social media post. \u201cBut let\u2019s see if it even loops first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey residents were still cautioned that the storm could kick up heavy surf \u2013 making swimming or boating in the ocean dangerous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/10\/forecast-shows-hurricane-matthew-will-stay-clear-of-n-j-for-now\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows Hurricane Matthew\u2019s track is significantly changed from just a day ago, when it was predicted to brush the New Jersey coast. But the\u00a0National Weather Service said its uncertainty was \u201chigh\u201d and its forecast confidence was \u201clow.\u201d The latest forecast track, released at 11 a.m. Wednesday, shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,2476],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-hurricane-matthew"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-05-at-11.03.21-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}