Hurricane Earl

Earl is now a hurricane (cat 1) and is expected to be a category 4. It's heading WNW and should miss Florida but possibly brush the east coast.

Update (8-31): Earl is a category 4 now...

It's moving NW and should be making a northerly turn soon; it has the potential to become a category 5, and one spaghetti model has it moving closer to the east coast. Storm watches are up now.

Update (9-1): Earl dropped to a cat 3, but is back up to a 4. Watches and warnings are up along the east coast.

Update (9-2): Earl seems to moving away from the coast and weakening; it should become a cat 2 and then a 1 before long.

Update (9-3): Earl is now a category 1 and is heading for Long Island and points north.

Update (9-4): Earl is now a tropical storm and has passed New York and is dumping rain in New England.

And is now heading NNE to Newfoundland.