This is a visible image of Major Hurricane Matthew taken from NASA’s Terra satellite on Oct. 7 at 12 p.m. EDT as it continued moving along Florida’s East Coast. Matthew was a Category 3 hurricane at the time of this image. Credit: NASA’s Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team
Hurricane Matthew is passing Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center at this time with sustained winds of 90 mph with gusts to 107 mph. There are no reports of significant damage so far, mostly power outages around different parts of the space center. The storm is expected to have passed the space center by 10:30 a.m. Tropical storm force winds are expected to continue until about 9:30 tonight. The storm is passing the space center about 26 miles off the tip of Cape Canaveral. Rainfall totals for the hurricane by the end of the storm are forecast to be 8-12 inches. Storm surge models are somewhat lower than originally forecast, now from 1-5 feet in various locations.