October 3, 2016: Colossal amounts of rain are soaking Haiti and the Dominican Republic as Category 4 Hurricane Matthew heads for an encounter with the western end of Hispaniola. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
As of the National Hurricane Center’s update at 8:00 pm EDT Monday, Matthew was located about 200 miles south of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, moving just east of due north at 8 mph. Matthew’s top sustained winds were holding at 140 mph, solidly in the Category 4 range. https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3461
