{"id":2922,"date":"2010-08-31T04:53:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2010-08-31T04:53:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T10:53:23","slug":"all-eyes-on-monster-category-4-hurricane-earl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/all-eyes-on-monster-category-4-hurricane-earl\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on monster Category 4 Hurricane Earl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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August 31, 2010 - Hurricane Earl passes to the north of Puerto Rico. The major hurricane is a threat to the United States from the mid-Atlantic to New England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hurricane Earl continues its slow trek toward the west-northwest after pummeling parts of the Caribbean yesterday.\u00a0 Today it looks like most areas will be spared the worst of the storm but a forecasted turn to the north may put parts of the East Coast at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The eye of Earl is currently 146 miles north of San Juan, Puerto Rico and the storm is packing 135 mph winds making it a Category 4 hurricane.\u00a0 A bit more strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours as the storm continues to encounter warm waters and favorable conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of particular concern is the path that Earl may take.\u00a0 It is expected to gradually turn north and eventually to the northeast.\u00a0 Within its forecast cone is a vast area stretching from South Carolina to Maine.\u00a0 With many large population centers within the possibility for landfall, the potential for a major disaster are great.<\/p>\n

We are monitoring the storm closely and posting updates to the Natural Disasters Examiner on Examiner.com.\u00a0 Be sure to check there for the latest.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

You can also view our live hurricane tracker here<\/a> and our tropical weather update page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video below is taken from NOAA satellite imagery and has been processed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies<\/a> (CIMSS).\u00a0 It shows the life of Hurricane Earl from sunrise to sunset yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Earl continues its slow trek toward the west-northwest after pummeling parts of the Caribbean yesterday.\u00a0 Today it looks like most areas will be spared the worst of the storm but a forecasted turn to the north may put parts of the East Coast at risk.\u00a0 The eye of Earl is currently 146 miles north … Continue reading All eyes on monster Category 4 Hurricane Earl<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[440,439,49,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}