Experts say Hurricane Mathew’s fury was largely unexpected, and that when it started forecasters thought it didn’t have all the ingredients to become a strong hurricane. “All of our tools were suggesting a hurricane, but not a strong hurricane,” Chris Landsea, science, and operations officer for the National Hurricane Center told The Verge. When Mathew hit Haiti on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, it was a full-blown Category 4 (some say Category 5) hurricane; it ripped off roofs, flooded thousands of homes, washed away bridges, destroyed farms, and killed people. Immediate reports after the hit put the death toll at over a hundred in Haiti, but that number continues to climb, and is currently at 877, according to Reuters. Yesterday, the Carribean country began three days of national mourning as they lay the victims of Hurricane Matthew to rest.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 09, 2016 13:08 UTC