Hurricane Earl Heading Directly for North Carolina with 140mph Sustained Winds
Published by Hurricane Earl is currently a category four hurricane and is on a direct path to smash into the Long Island Outer Bank Islands just off North Carolina. Cape Cod Island and Coastal Maine are also under imminent threat. Wind speeds for Earl are sustained at 135mph at present and the category four storm is just one category off the highest storm there is.
Its path is heading in a northerly direction as of Wednesday morning September 1, 2010. The forthcoming weekend is Labor Day in the United States and the storm is due to touch coast line right over the forthcoming weekend.
Earl is moving at speeds of around 13mph and comes just days after another Hurricane Danielle which caused dangerous current and tidal rips in New York and New Jersey over the weekend of August 28/29. Those living in the area known as the Big Apple can expect further big waves and strengthening winds by Friday and Saturday September 3rd and 4th and as Earl is a Cat 4 hurricane it will be far more hazardous than Danielle was.
All Category 4 hurricanes bring with it a warning from the Saffir-Simpson scale as one that would bring catastrophic damage and a high risk of structural damage should it hit land. Its path should see it change direction around Saturday morning September 4th from a north-westerly to a north-easterly but at the point of its change in direction it will have skimmed the coast around New York. It is expected to lose strength however after it has passed North Carolina and will reach Canada’s eastern coast around Sunday or Monday by which time heavy rains and winds of around 40mph will have seen the hurricane downgraded to a tropical storm.
However the next hurricane, Hurricane Fiona is already lining up just off the coast of Puerto Rico and heading for Bermuda but this hurricane is much weaker with winds sustained at around 80mph at present and expected to drop to around 50mph by the time it reaches Bermuda on Sunday morning.
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