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Earl Passes Very Close To North Carolina Tonight

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Need to hit refresh to refresh the Radar image or click for larger image… Although weaker that it was earlier today, Earl is still a very large,  major hurricane at a category 3 with sustained maximum winds of 115 mph. Earl continues to move north at 18 mph and is 180 miles south of Cape [...]

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Earl Remains a Threat from North Carolina to New England

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Hurricane warnings have been posted from Bogue Inlet, NC up to the North Carolina/Virginia border including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds. Hurricane watches are posted from the North Carolina/Virginia border north to Cape Henlopen, DE. Tropical Storm warnings are in effect from Cape Fear, NC to Bogue Inlet. As of 2pm EDT Earl remains a very [...]

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Category 4 Earl Looks to Just Graze U.S. East Coast

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Hurricane Earl, which has maintained it’s category 4 strength (max sustained winds 135 mph) since yesterday evening, looks to be weakening some as it goes through an eyewall replacement cycle. Another sign of weakening could because it is experiencing some wind shear on its western side. It is evident in the image above. The western [...]

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East Coast Watches & Waits for Hurricane Earl – Fiona Forms

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Earl became the second major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane this morning, and has continued to intensify since then. As of 5pm EDT, Earl had become a category 4 hurricane with sustained maximum winds of 135 mph and a central pressure 948 mb. It is moving west-northwest at 15 mph. Here is current forecast [...]

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FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE ON TROPICAL STORM BONNIE

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Around 6pm EDT Thursday night Tropical Depression 3 became Tropical Storm Bonnie. The second named storm this season in the Atlantic. As of 8am EDT, Bonnie had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph with higher gusts. It is expected to make it’s first landfall later this afternoon some where over the Florida Keys and the [...]

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