Hurricane Earl, Visible, 3:45 PM EST. Early this morning Earl was declared a hurricane after sustained winds inside of Earl were found to be 75 MPH. Earl seems to be intensifying quite rapidly as it approaches the Lesser Antilles and by tomorrow could be a category 2 hurricane. Hurricane warnings are up for many of the islands but the brunt of the storm will be takes by Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. A landfall is even possible. As of right now the models still do not have a consensus on Earl’s track, they range from a Florida landfall to a Nova Scotian landfall. If anything it looks very likely that North Carolina will at least get sideswiped by this storm, if not directly hit by it. Right now it is not looking good for the east coast as Earl will be over extremely warm water and will intensify rapidly. A category 4 storm is not out of the question a few days from now.
