Hurricane Matthew as seen from space

As Hurricane Matthew plows through the Caribbean, officials in the US are eyeing the massive storm.

Still, most other models seem to align more closely with the forecast of the GFS model, Golembo said. But the White House said Tuesday the trip is being postponed because of the hurricane.

The agency said volunteers will likely be needed to help residents across the state of SC.

Forecasters said the storm could hit Florida – or come dangerously close – Thursday evening and then sideswipe the East Coast all the way up to the Carolinas over the weekend.

Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for Florida on Monday, designating resources for evacuations and shelters and putting the National Guard on standby. Hurricane Matthew roared across the southwestern tip of Haiti with 145 miles per hour winds Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, uprooting trees and tearing roofs from homes in a largely rural corner of the impoverished country as the storm headed north toward Cuba and the east coast of Florida.

“We have people in Grand Anse that we can not reach”, Hervil Cherubin, country director for Heifer International, a nonprofit group that works with local farmers. Haiti, where as much as 25 inches of rain is expected, reaching 40 inches in isolated areas, began evacuating residents by boat from outlying islands.

He also asked residents to comply with any evacuation orders from local officials as the week progresses.

Emergency managers urge everyone to have a three-day supply of food and water on hand. Residents are also advised to fill their vehicles with fuel, and keep their mobile phones charged in case of power blackouts.

But, the forecast cone was edged west at the 5 a.m. advisory, so that it now skims Palm Beach County and any toggle to the west could put more of South Florida inside the cone.

Haitians living in vulnerable coastal shacks frantically sought shelter as the strongest Caribbean storm in nine years, Hurricane Matthew, closed in on the southwestern peninsula, sending storm surges, wind and rain into seaside towns.

The most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade roared across the Caribbean on Tuesday, slamming into the south-western tip of Haiti.

A high pressure ridge is nudging Matthew toward Florida and blocking its path due north from the Bahamas.

Scientists say Matthew’s tracking 1954’s Hurricane Hazel which killed 1000 in Haiti along.

Hurricane Hermine became the first to strike Florida since Wilma in 2005 when it hit the eastern Panhandle on September 2 as a Category 1 storm, causing one death, storm surge damage to beachfront homes and downed trees and powerlines. Winds of 145 miles per hour.

Authorities said three people have died in connection to Hurricane Matthew in the past week, CNN reported, included a fisherman in Haiti who died on Sunday.

Scott will be in Marathon at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, before moving upstate in the afternoon.

“They are getting everything a major hurricane can throw at them”, Feltgen said.

The center of Hurricane Matthew is expected to pass near or over southwestern Haiti on Tuesday, but the are.

A hurricane warning was posted for the southeastern Bahamas, where the storm was expected to move along the eastern length of the island chain starting early Wednesday.

The National Weather Service says the total rainfall during the storm could be catastrophic, warning that “rainfall will likely produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides”.

After making landfall Tuesday night near Cuba’s sparsely populated eastern tip with no immediate reports of major damage, the center of the slightly weakened but still powerful Category 4 storm moved back over open waters.