Hurricane Matthew becomes powerful Category 5 storm
Hurricane Matthew in the southern Caribbean picked up strength late Friday and became a powerful Category 5 storm, the US National Hurricane Center said.
(AFP) Hurricane Matthew in the southern Caribbean picked up strength late Friday and became a powerful Category 5 storm, the US National Hurricane Center said.
Matthew, swirling off the northern coast of Colombia and Venezuela and forecast to head towards Jamaica and Cuba, was packing winds of 260 kilometres per hour, making it the strongest storm on the NHC's 1-5 scale, the NHC said in its 0300 GMT bulletin.
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