Hurricane Earl moves closer to Boston and Massachusetts
September 3, 2010
There is good and bad news in the continuing development of hurricane Earl as it makes it way up the Eastern coastline of the United States. The good news is that the hurricane appears to be weakening down to a category one hurricane and the likelyhood of a direct hit on the Boston area have been greatly reduced. The bad news is that the area is still going to receive substantial amounts of rain, suffer from high winds and could experience an occasional flash flood. The storm is projected to pass the Massachusetts area with the eye of the storm over 100 miles to the east in the Atlantic Ocean.
The projected storm path has traveled in a more eastern path after brushing the coastline of North Carolina late last night. The path of travel north up the coast has been better than expected for residents in Maryland, New Jersey, Long Island and Massachusetts that all could have been in a direct path of the one time category 4 hurricane. This years Atlantic hurricane season has been quite active with several hurricanes threatening the Eastern Coastline. The exit of hurricane Earl does not signal an all clear sign for property owners in potential hurricane states as there are several tropcial storms that are still begining to form in the Atlantic Ocean as they come off of the Coast from Africa.
