Arthur Now Cat 2 – Top Winds 100 mph
The eye of Hurricane Arthur is skirting the coast just south of Morehead City, NC tonight.
Here is the 9 p.m. advisory summary and forecast track:
The issue of whether the hurricane will actually make landfall is in play. It is an academic question, cause the worst of the impacts are in the eyewall. If the eye actually stays offshore, the impacts can be worse since locations along the coast stay in the worst weather without a break.
Here is the radar from Morehead City:
Landfall is defined as the point when the geometric center of the center crosses the coast. It will be a very close call to see if the geometric center intersects the coastline at Cape Lookout for a technical landfall.
The NW Wilmington reports that a weather station at Fort Macon east of Atlantic Beach has recorded an 87 mph wind gust. This is in the northern eyewall.
Category: Tropical