Weather...Matthew vs. Camille

Thursday, October 13, 2016

The forecast for today is partly cloudy. It should be mostly sunny, all day. The night will be clear with a Waxing Gibbous lighting up the sky. The high will be 76 degrees. The low will be 47 degrees. There won’t be a lot of wind. It should be fairly warm throughout the day. Today is the warmest day of the week.

In 2015, Louisa County is estimated to have 3.62 inches of rain in October. As of October 12, 2016, Louisa has gotten 2.11 inches of rain. The amount of rainfall that we have gotten may been affected by hurricane Matthew.  This is the 10 day forecast for the week of Oct 16-22nd: Sunday, October 16th, the high is 71F , Monday, 10/17 the high will be 78F, Tuesday, 10/18 the high will be 80F, Wednesday 10/19 the high will be 80F , Thursday 10/20 the high will be 74F , Friday, 10/21 the high will be 72F, and Saturday 10/22 the high will be 68F.

Today, October 13, there is a hurricane in the atlantic ocean on top of Bermuda. The hurricane’s name is Nicole and it is a category 3. The winds of Nicole are expected to reach 125 miles per hour. The storm surge will get up to 6 - 8 feet. The location of hurricane Nicole is at 32.3 N and 64.6 W. The hurricane is moving northeast or 35 degrees at 14 knots which is around 16 miles per hour. The eye of hurricane Nicole was said to be bigger than Bermuda itself. Bermuda may get up to as much as 30 inches of rain today.

Hurricane Matthew was a devastating storm, ripping trees out of the ground and downing power lines in the lower part of the East Coast. Louisa wasn’t hit at all hard compared to the places like Lumber River, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida. The total fatality rate from Matthew was 1,027 deaths, and it is presumed  that there will be more bodies found in Haiti, where people are still being found.

Hurricane Camille was third strongest cyclone in 1969. It hit Virginia, dumping 28 inches of rain in only 8 hours. It hit the the entire East Coast, New York recording up to 68 inches of rain. In Virginia, it staked 150 lives and cost millions of dollars in repairs. Flooding slammed Virginia, debris flowing into Nelson county. Camille caused mudslides and major flash floods in  different parts of Nelson county.

Both Camille and Matthew were tragic and devastating, yet Camille was the most catastrophic for our local area.  We had flooding and people who were fatally harmed, as to where in Matthew, we simply had rain. Although Matthew had a higher death total, and more major impact on other states and parts of the word, Camille hit the East Coast in a cataclysmic effect.

GMLT