He’s also getting baroclinically enhanced. Look at that poleward outflow touching the jetstream.
Yeah, and that is also a big danger for Carolina flooding. Bad things happen when a tropical system runs into a front - Google Agnes for details.
And Matthew has consistently had what some Wunderground posters call a doppleganger to his east. That could become a wildcard for flooding rains.
Wind scares you, but water kills you. We can only hope the rainfall from this peters out. So far the US has been lucky. Let’s hope that luck holds for the next 48 hours.
"Heh...."