Hurricane Earl Now Cat 3, Could Swipe US East Coast

[Cheryl Nelson]

Already a Cat 4 since this was posted a few hours ago....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100830/ts_nm/us_weather_storm_earl

[edina]

Thanks for the update Stephen, :)

Joe, you photo is riveting, can you imagine standing in the face of those waves....

[Stephen Gerard]

Earl is Category 4.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 135 MPH...215 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. EARL IS A CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
HURRICANE WIND SCALE. SOME ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST
DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO.

[john miller]

Hope it stays EAST, with the FISH.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Thanks, Brian. The Tropical Storm winds looks like it will just miss us.

Thanks for the history, Joe. Sounds like providence moved your mom.

[joe kurtz]

this is a picture of a hurricane that hit nyc, 1938. that's the east river. in 1954 hrricane carol, i was 8 years old.we had glass front doors. i went to get the mail. i looked out and saw gabbage cans flying, umbrella's flying, as i walked through our second glass door the front door glass blow apart, i had glass stuck in my calf in serval places. it was three days before we could go back to school. just a little history.

[edina]

Kim, do you think this storm will affect you where you are at?

[joe kurtz]

isn't strange. my mother, 84 years old, moved from ct to live with my two brothers in ga. ct gets hit with a tornado, and now this.

[Kim B]

Thanks for the charts, Brian. I am curious as to how this storm will track.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Well, the 5-day forecast shows that it won't reach us (as long as the track doesn't change).

[Cheryl Nelson]

Shadow, I'm about 160 miles inland, as the eagle flies, from Virginia Beach. We will see rain and wind, how much depends on how close to the coast it comes and how big the system is. Hurricane Floyd in 1999 just missed us, but the next county to the east incurred much flooding.