Hurricane Earl Threatens United States Coast

Hurricane Earl Threatens United States Coast

Storm is expected to gain even greater strength before heading northwest towards the United States. Earl caused flooding in low-lying areas and damaged homes on islands including Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla and St. Maarten in Caribbean.

 

Earl is forecast to brush the U.S. East Coast. Hurricane Earl blowing across the northeastern Caribbean Sea has strengthened to a Category Four second-highest on the five-step scale hurricane.

Hurricane Earl is the seventh depression, fifth storm, third hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. Earl is the first Cape Verde-type hurricane to affect the Leeward Islands since Hurricane Georges. Earl intensified further into a category 4 hurricane.