Hurricane
Earl A Harbinger Of Worse To Come?
Hurricane Earl—now a Category 3 hurricane with winds
of up to 115 miles (185 kilometers) an hour—is
expected to nearly miss North Carolina's Outer Banks
early Friday morning. But the storm could be the first
of several intense hurricanes to menace the U.S. East
Coast as the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season heats up,
according to Jeff Masters, meteorological director for
the Weather Underground website.