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U.S. Issues Storm Warnings for New England as Earl Approaches
Stuart Biggs and Brian K. Sullivan | September 03, 2010

A handout satellite image made and released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on 02 September 2010 of Hurricane Earl as it nears the East Coast of the United States. Earl is a category 4 storm with winds in excess of 145 mph (233 km/h). (Photo EPA) A handout satellite image made and released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on 02 September 2010 of Hurricane Earl as it nears the East Coast of the United States. Earl is a category 4 storm with winds in excess of 145 mph (233 km/h). (Photo EPA)
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Tropical storm warnings were issued for parts of the New England coast as Hurricane Earl, which weakened to Category 2 strength, continued to move north near the U.S. eastern seaboard.

The hurricane was 115 miles (185 kilometers) south- southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, down from 110 mph earlier, the center said in an advisory at 11 p.m. Miami time yesterday. Earl was moving north-northeast at 18 mph.

Tropical storm warnings were issued for the coast of Massachusetts from north of Hull to the Merrimack River and for the coast of Maine from Stonington to Eastport, according to the advisory. A hurricane warning remains in effect for most of the North Carolina coast and the Massachusetts seaboard including Cape and Martha’s Vineyard.

“Earl is expected to remain a large hurricane as it passes near the Outer Banks and approaches southeastern New England,” the advisory said.
Winds of as high as 100 mph are expected to batter Nantucket starting tonight, Neal Strauss, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Taunton, Massachusetts, said yesterday.

The island, which lies 90 miles south of Boston, will be the closest Earl gets to the U.S., with the brunt coming at about 2 a.m. tomorrow, he said. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency.

Before its winds dropped from 140 mph yesterday, Earl was the third-strongest hurricane on record to travel so far north along the east coast, Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground Inc., wrote on his blog.

At its peak, Earl’s winds were 145 mph, making it a Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale and the strongest of the 2010 Atlantic season. Category 2 is the second weakest on the scale.

The storm triggered mandatory evacuations and warnings from North Carolina to Canada and President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency for North Carolina.

“Slow weakening is forecast during the next 24 to 36 hours,” the Hurricane Center advisory said.

The storm is forecast to affect North Carolina early this morning as Earl passes near the Outer Banks before skirting Cape Cod and landing in Nova Scotia. Earl may cause a surge of 5 feet (1.5 meters) in the warning area of North Carolina as well as the lower Chesapeake Bay, the center said.

“Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves,” the center said.



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