Hurricane Watches in Mexico, Texas For Hermine

According to the article below, Newly formed tropical storm Hermine pushed north in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, strengthening as it headed towards the US-Mexico border area, and threatening storm surges and even mudslides. Hermine was packing sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour.
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Hermine prompts hurricane watches in Mexico, Texas

Yahoo! News: "MIAMI (AFP)

Newly formed tropical storm Hermine pushed north in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, strengthening as it headed towards the US-Mexico border area, and threatening storm surges and even mudslides, forecasters said.

Hermine, the eighth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was packing sustained winds of 85 kilometers (50 miles) per hour at 1500 GMT after picking up strength during the day, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

The Mexican government issued a hurricane watch from Rio San Fernando to the mouth of the Rio Grande, which is on the US border. The watch extends as far north as Baffin Bay, Texas, the hurricane center said.

Although Hermine's top winds were below hurricane strength, the Miami-based center said the storm 'could approach hurricane strength prior to landfall.' Tropical storm warnings were in effect on both sides of the border.

Forecasters said the system would dump between four to eight inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of rain on northeastern Mexico and south Texas, with up to 12 inches possible.

"These rainfall amounts may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, especially over the higher terrain of northeastern Mexico," the center said.

It warned a storm surge of two to four feet (up to 1.2 meters) was also possible.

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Hurricane watch extended For Hurricane Earl for the U.S coast

There are still some major storm warnings out there and no-one really knows exactly what path Hurricane Earl is going to take. If it turns as expected, the damage will be much less.  But if the track continues towards shore longer than expected it could be major. Keep tuned . . .
   . . . June


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Hurricane Earl close call for the U.S coast Hurricane watch extended warnings tonight 
September 1st, 2010 8:29 am ET National NOAA Headlines | Examiner.com:

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has extended the hurricane watch along the mid-Atlantic coast. Hurricane warnings could be required later today. There is a hurricane watch in effect from Surf City, North Carolina to Parramore Island Virginia. There is a tropical storm watch in effect from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Surf City. Hurricane Earl is located 780 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras North Carolina."

Earl is moving towards the northwest at 16 mph and is expected to stay on that track for the 24 to 36 hours and then Earl should turn more to the north and eventually northeast. Again the computer models have shifted westward and the U.S. is under the gun form this power hurricane. The official track takes Earl very close to the coast from North Carolina to Nova Scotia. Any deviation westward would cause Earl to make landfall. There still is time to make your hurricane preparations. Hurricane Earl is a very large system and even if he stays 100 miles of shore inland residents 100 mile from the coast will experience tropical storm force winds and that can knock out power to many areas for days.


Hurricane Earl has winds of 125 mph making him a category 3 hurricane. Earl is entering an environment not conducive for further strengthening. Hurricane Earl will have to contend with increasing wind shear, dry air and cooler water temperatures. The NHC keep Earl at a consistent 125 mph for the next 36 hours and weakens Earl to a sub-tropical system in 4 days.

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Hurricane Earl On The Path for North Carolina And More

Hurricane Earl is roaring on in the direction of North Carolina and threatening the East coast of the United States. It's a monster Category 4 storm and everyone from the meteorologists to the storm chasers are following it very closely. Below is a current article on the subject.
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Earl on path for N. Carolina, then due north
Weather - msnbc.com news service

"MIAMI — Hurricane Earl, a monster Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds, churned on a path toward the North Carolina coast on Tuesday after lashing Puerto Rico and northeast Caribbean islands with winds, rain and waves.

The forecast track of Earl, the second major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic season, showed fringes clipping North Carolina's Outer Banks barrier islands early on Friday and also threatening the East Coast northward from there."

"Interests from the Carolinas northward to New England should monitor the progress of Earl," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.

In particular, Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks could see a "close approach" from Earl, the center said.
A hurricane watch could be posted by Tuesday night for the mid-Atlantic coast, alerting residents to expect storm conditions within 72 hours, the center said.

No evacuations were announced, but that could change if Earl deviates a bit farther west, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Craig Fugate said Tuesday.

"Interests from the Carolinas northward to New England should monitor the progress of Earl," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.

Fugate said the primary risk from Earl if it suddenly changed course westwards would be from storm surge on the shoreline.

Barry Baxter, a hurricane center meteorologist, said forecasters had nudged the storm's track slightly to the west overnight but still had it narrowly missing a direct full-on impact to the U.S. coast.

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