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Earl Downgraded to Category 2 as Vacation Disruption Continues

(Sept. 2) -- Hurricane Earl lost some steam today as it headed for the Eastern Seaboard, with winds slackening to a still-dangerous 110 mph, as tens of thousands of vacationers scrapped Labor Day beach plans on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The National Hurricane Center downgraded Earl earlier today to a Category 2...

Earl Threatens US Coast After Hitting Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Aug. 31) -- Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines. Earl is forecast to potentially brush the U.S. East Coast...

Hurricane Earl Path: Now a 'Major' Category 4 Storm; Where Is It Going?

(Aug. 30) -- It's on a warpath, but where is it going? The status of Hurricane Earl, now a Category 4 storm, was updated by the National Hurricane Center at 7 p.m. EDT. Surge Desk runs down the key facts about what it's doing, where it's headed and who should be on the lookout. 1. Where is Hurricane Earl? As of 8 p.m....

Background on hurricane center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC), located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic ocean.

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